I-270 @ I-370MD001
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/450 ft/71 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Test Message is in force for Washington Grove until 4:15 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 6 PM, the chance peaking at 62% around 7 PM.
Now. Washington Grove is 58° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Washington Grove, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Suburban DC (MD), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Washington Grove, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Washington Grove, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
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I-270 @ I-370MD001
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/450 ft/71 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GaithersburgGAI
At an airfield/2.0 mi away/539 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3949DW3949
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/373 ft/148 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Tenmile Creek Precip Gage At Clarksburg391407077174001
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.2 mi away/599 ft/78 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Powder MillS2049
At a soil climate station/19.4 mi away/105 ft/416 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Gaithersburg 2.4 EMD-MG-154
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/518 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Damascus 3 SSWDMAM2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/676 ft/155 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.0 mi from Washington Grove, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 200 ft; the ceiling is 200 ft; visibility 1.5 mi.
60.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 200 ft.
From the south southeast (160 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Gaithersburg, 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.