Kings PointNDBC-KPTN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 9 AM (74%).
Now. Great Neck is 56° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (68%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:04 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Great Neck, New York.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Long Island Region (NY), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Great Neck, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Great Neck, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Kings PointNDBC-KPTN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4983GW4983
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/143 ft/68 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SchodackNY003
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/328 ft/253 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/7.9 mi away/30 ft/45 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Queens 3.6 NENY-QN-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/48 ft/27 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SyossetSYON6
At a cooperative observer's station/12.7 mi away/251 ft/176 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.9 mi from Great Neck, New York. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:51 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,000 ft, scattered at 12,000 ft, broken at 25,000 ft; the ceiling is 25,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 69 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 3,000 ft.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 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.