Sterling Forest USGS rain gage411405074141501
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Greenwood Lake 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 51° after 73° today.
Now. Greenwood Lake is 56° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 17 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Greenwood Lake, New York.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, New York City Region (NY), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.52 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Greenwood Lake, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Greenwood Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Sterling Forest USGS rain gage411405074141501
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW4669DW4669
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.2 mi away/433 ft/192 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/19.9 mi away/364 ft/261 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Greenwood Lake 0.3 WNY-OR-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/630 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West PointWPTN6
At a cooperative observer's station/20.8 mi away/220 ft/405 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.9 mi from Greenwood Lake, New York. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:10 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,800 ft, broken at 4,100 ft, overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 49.0 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 2,800 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 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.