I-68 at Md 55MD035
Beside a road/1.7 mi away/1,594 ft/536 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Vale Summit until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Vale Summit is 41° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:30 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Vale Summit, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Western Maryland (MD), 0 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 0.25 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Vale Summit, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Vale Summit, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-68 at Md 55MD035
Beside a road/1.7 mi away/1,594 ft/536 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0953GW0953
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/963 ft/1,167 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
North Branch Potomac River Near Cumberland01603000
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/584 ft/1,546 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CumberlandCBE
At an airfield/7.7 mi away/775 ft/1,355 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cumberland 7.2 SWMD-AL-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/1,249 ft/881 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FrostburgFRSM2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/2,182 ft/52 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.7 mi from Vale Summit, Maryland. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 7:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,500 ft, scattered at 4,200 ft, scattered at 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.3 F with a dew point of 36.3 F, 61 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,500 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Cumberland, 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.