In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/936 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 1 PM, the chance peaking at 63% around 2 PM.
Now. Painted Post is 64° and mostly cloudy at 9 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 46°. Rain is possible tomorrow (38%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Painted Post, New York.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Central New York Region (NY), 58 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Painted Post, New YorkReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Painted Post, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/936 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.7 mi away/942 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cowanesque Lake at Lawrenceville01519995
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Painted Post 0.7 SSENY-ST-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/940 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CorningCORN6
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/1,184 ft/245 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.7 mi from Painted Post, New York. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 500 ft; the ceiling is 500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 500 ft.
Calm.
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
29 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.