Beside a road/0.6 mi away/13 ft/10 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 66% around 10 PM.
Now. West Denton is 67° and overcast at 10 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (65%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in West Denton, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Lower Eastern Shore (MD), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over West Denton, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest West Denton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/0.6 mi away/13 ft/10 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Tuckahoe RAWSTUKM2
A remote fire weather station/6.4 mi away/46 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
EastonESN
At an airfield/13.6 mi away/72 ft/49 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW8736FW8736
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.2 mi away/29 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Denton 5.8 WSWMD-CL-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/39 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Queenstown 3SQNSM2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.7 mi away/10 ft/13 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.6 mi from West Denton, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:45 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 600 ft; the ceiling is 600 ft; visibility 5 mi.
66.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 600 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Easton, 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.