At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/1,136 ft/83 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 74% around 1 PM.
Now. Madison is 53° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 11 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 42°. Rain is likely tomorrow (65%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Madison, New York.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Central New York Region (NY), 43 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Madison, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Madison, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/1,136 ft/83 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HamiltonVGC
At an airfield/4.5 mi away/1,125 ft/94 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/667 ft/552 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Munnsville 0.1 ENY-MD-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/668 ft/551 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Morrisville 6 SWMRRN6
At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/1,683 ft/464 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 3.7 mi from Madison, New York. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:45 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,136 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.71 inHg and the temperature at 54.9 F; it reports 55.3 F, 0.4 F warmer than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 38 degrees above the horizon at 42.87 N, and the day is 10 h 52 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 1,136 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:45 AM local time is written on the sensors that made 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.