I-70 @ I-81MD011
Beside a road/2.2 mi away/499 ft/63 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Williamsport until 8 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 29 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 83° today.
Now. Williamsport is 63° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:26 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Williamsport, Maryland.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Hagerstown Region (MD), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Williamsport, MarylandReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Williamsport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-70 @ I-81MD011
Beside a road/2.2 mi away/499 ft/63 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW1323CW1323
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/540 ft/104 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/705 ft/269 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Antietam National BattlefieldANBM2
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.2 mi away/476 ft/40 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WilliamsportWLLM2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.0 mi away/541 ft/105 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Williamsport 2.8 ENEMD-WH-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/574 ft/138 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Williamsport, Maryland. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 10,000 ft, overcast at 12,000 ft; the ceiling is 10,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
62.0 F with a dew point of 52.0 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 10,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 45 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.