ChichesterCHIN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.5 mi away/991 ft/1,046 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 51° after 42° today.
Now. Haines Falls is 43° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 34° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° 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 Tuesday, near 57°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Haines Falls, New York.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lower Hudson Valley Region (NY), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.34 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Haines Falls, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Haines Falls, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ChichesterCHIN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.5 mi away/991 ft/1,046 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DWGW3121DWGW3121
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.2 mi away/1,429 ft/608 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Millbrook 3 W64756
At a climate reference station/34.2 mi away/413 ft/1,624 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Elka Park 3.8 ESENY-GR-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/2,022 ft/15 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Phoenicia 2SWPHON6
At a cooperative observer's station/15.2 mi away/1,499 ft/538 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 12.5 mi from Haines Falls, New York. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 1:00 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 991 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.87 inHg and the temperature at 55.5 F; it reports 51.0 F, 4.4 F colder than standard.
On Oct 17 the noon sun stands 38 degrees above the horizon at 42.10 N, and the day is 10 h 51 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 991 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 17, 2026, 1:00 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
The full report of Chichester, in 3 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.