Albany Toll PlazaNY002
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/279 ft/115 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (51%).
Now. Dix Hills is 66° and overcast at 11 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (38%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Dix Hills, New York.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Long Island Region (NY), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 PM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Dix Hills, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Albany Toll PlazaNY002
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/279 ft/115 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW3615CW3615
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/34 ft/130 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.4 mi away/82 ft/82 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Reynolds Channel AT Reynolds ChannelREYN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.3 mi away/7 ft/157 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Deer Park 1.0 NENY-SF-153
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/102 ft/62 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Vanderbilt MuseumCTPN6
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/167 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.4 mi from Dix Hills, New York. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:14 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 300 ft; the ceiling is 300 ft; visibility 1.75 mi.
65.0 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 300 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Vanderbilt Museum (CTPN6), 6.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
29 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.