MD 20 at MD 21MD101
Beside a road/5.0 mi away/62 ft/54 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Rock Hall until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 62% around 8 PM.
Now. Rock Hall is 77° and clear at 5 PM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (73%). Rain is possible Monday (32%), Tuesday (30%) and Thursday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Rock Hall, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Upper Eastern Shore (MD), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rock Hall, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Rock Hall, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
MD 20 at MD 21MD101
Beside a road/5.0 mi away/62 ft/54 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Tolchester BeachNDBC-TCBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW5391EW5391
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/2 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
StevensvilleW29
At an airfield/12.1 mi away/16 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/33.8 mi away/105 ft/97 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Rock Hall 2.2 NNWMD-KN-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/22 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
StevensvilleSTVM2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.6 mi away/-20 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.1 mi from Rock Hall, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.0 F with a dew point of 68.7 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up.
From the south (180 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Stevensville, 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.