I-495 @ MD-4MD054
Beside a road/2.7 mi away/148 ft/24 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 56% around 8 PM.
Now. Peppermill Village is 44° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (72%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Peppermill Village, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia and DC (DC), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Peppermill Village, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Peppermill Village, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-495 @ MD-4MD054
Beside a road/2.7 mi away/148 ft/24 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KB3PHDKB3PHD
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/63 ft/109 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Andrews AFBADW
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/282 ft/110 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/8.7 mi away/105 ft/67 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Pheasant Run - Patuxent Env RAWSPREM2
A remote fire weather station/11.7 mi away/215 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mitchellville 1.6 SSWMD-PG-58
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/176 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BeltsvilleBTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/138 ft/34 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Peppermill Village, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.8 F with a dew point of 58.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
Calm.
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.