Citizen station DW8362DW8362
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/338 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Point of Rocks until 8 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 82° today.
Now. Point of Rocks is 81° and mostly clear at 4 PM. With the humidity it feels like 84°. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 64° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 PM in Point of Rocks, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Maryland Piedmont (MD), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Point of Rocks, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Point of Rocks, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
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Citizen station DW8362DW8362
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/338 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
US-340 @ MD-180MD016
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/442 ft/115 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Tenmile Creek Precipitation Gage At Slidell391328077185901
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.1 mi away/552 ft/225 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/302 ft/25 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Adamstown 0.7 ESEMD-FR-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/317 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Damascus 3 SSWDMAM2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/676 ft/349 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Point of Rocks, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:47 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Clear; visibility 10 mi or more.
78.8 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
From the southwest (230 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 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.