At an airfield/4.3 mi away/942 ft/63 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 47° today.
Now. Elmira Heights is 46° and clear at 5 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 38° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 66°, and the coolest Friday, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:12 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Elmira Heights, New York.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Central New York Region (NY), 52 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Elmira Heights, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Elmira Heights, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/4.3 mi away/942 ft/63 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW3806CW3806
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,658 ft/779 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cowanesque Lake at Lawrenceville01519995
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ithaca 13 E64758
At a climate reference station/37.0 mi away/1,228 ft/349 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Horseheads 2.7 SSENY-CM-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/871 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElmiraEMRN6
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/942 ft/63 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.3 mi from Elmira Heights, New York. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 4:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
47.0 F with a dew point of 22.0 F, 37 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,600 ft up.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 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
Measured at Elmira (EMRN6), 1.9 miles from here, read 17 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.