Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/476 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sharpsburg until 8 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 30 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 84° today.
Now. Sharpsburg is 79° and mostly clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 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 12:00 PM in Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Martinsburg (WV), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 15, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sharpsburg, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sharpsburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/476 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW1783EW1783
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/432 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
IS 70 WB at South MountainMD064
Beside a road/9.2 mi away/797 ft/364 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/17.3 mi away/705 ft/272 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sharpsburg 0.2 ENEMD-WH-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/410 ft/23 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WilliamsportWLLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.2 mi away/541 ft/108 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.3 mi from Sharpsburg, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
73.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the south (180 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 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.