In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/936 ft/33 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 24 degrees cooler: a high of 47° after 71° today.
Now. Coopers Plains is 53° and overcast at 8 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 6 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 47°. Rain is possible tomorrow (31%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Coopers Plains, New York.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Central New York Region (NY), 59 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Coopers Plains, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Coopers Plains, 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 now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/936 ft/33 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/942 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cowanesque Lake at Lawrenceville01519995
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gang Mills 2.1 NNY-ST-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/981 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CorningCORN6
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/1,184 ft/215 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Coopers Plains, New York. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:47 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 800 ft, overcast at 1,700 ft; the ceiling is 1,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 48.0 F, 86 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 800 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Elmira / Corning, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.