Citizen station CW0736CW0736
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/555 ft/146 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Clarkson until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 47° after 69° today.
Now. Clarkson is 61° and overcast at 2 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 47°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Clarkson, New York.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Eastern Lake Ontario Region (NY), 58 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.74 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Clarkson, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Clarkson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station CW0736CW0736
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/555 ft/146 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sandy Creek At North Hamlin04220223
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/253 ft/156 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/14.7 mi away/554 ft/145 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Brockport 0.6 WNWNY-MR-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/386 ft/23 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrockportBRKN6
At a cooperative observer's station/2.0 mi away/511 ft/102 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.7 mi from Clarkson, New York. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,600 ft, broken at 3,400 ft, broken at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 3,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.0 F with a dew point of 56.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
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Snow on the ground
29 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.