MD-4 at PatuxentMD045
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/30 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Severe Thunderstorm Watch, in full
Alert. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in force for Solomons until 8 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM, the chance peaking at 86% around 5 AM.
Now. Solomons is 78° and mostly clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (92%). Rain is possible Monday (40%), Tuesday (45%), Wednesday (31%) and Thursday (34%). The windiest day is Monday, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Solomons, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
0.45 in in the last 24 hours, 0.47 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Solomons, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Solomons, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MD-4 at PatuxentMD045
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/30 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Solomons IslandNDBC-SLIM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW6344CW6344
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/96 ft/78 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/4.7 mi away/39 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
SolomonsSOLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/20 ft/2 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lusby 0.6 NEMD-CV-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/118 ft/100 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.7 mi from Solomons, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 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; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the south (190 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 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.