MD 260 at Cox RdMD103
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/72 ft/40 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 12 AM, the chance peaking at 72% around 5 AM.
Now. Owings is 58° and rain at 12 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 4 mph, gusting to 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 12 AM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:23 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Owings, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.37 in in the last 24 hours, 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Owings, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Owings, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
MD 260 at Cox RdMD103
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/72 ft/40 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3221EW3221
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/84 ft/28 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CedarvilleCVLM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.1 mi away/233 ft/121 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Andrews AFBADW
At an airfield/15.6 mi away/282 ft/170 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/24.9 mi away/105 ft/7 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
North Beach 1.8 WNWMD-CV-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/127 ft/15 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bristol/Jug Bay Met SensorsBSLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/-20 ft/132 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.6 mi from Owings, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
62.4 F with a dew point of 56.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Andrews AFB, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.