IS 81 SB at Showalter RoadMD133
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/666 ft/73 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Paramount-Long Meadow until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Paramount-Long Meadow is 55° and light rain at 3 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:24 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Paramount-Long Meadow, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Hagerstown Region (MD), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Paramount-Long Meadow, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Paramount-Long Meadow, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
IS 81 SB at Showalter RoadMD133
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/666 ft/73 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/2.7 mi away/705 ft/112 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1323CW1323
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/540 ft/53 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Catoctin Mountain Raws Near Foxville 1NeFOXM2
A remote fire weather station/10.9 mi away/1,453 ft/860 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hagerstown 1.0 ENEMD-WH-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/525 ft/68 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hagerstown Regional AirportKHGR
At an airfield/2.6 mi away/687 ft/94 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.7 mi from Paramount-Long Meadow, Maryland. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 3:22 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,800 ft, broken at 8,500 ft, overcast at 12,000 ft; the ceiling is 8,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
54.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 80 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
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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.