At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/1,014 ft/457 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 41° after 69° today.
Now. West Kill is 47° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 6 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 12 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 41°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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 1:00 AM in West Kill, New York.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lower Hudson Valley Region (NY), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
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
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 4 instruments nearest West Kill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/1,014 ft/457 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW3501DW3501
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.8 mi away/2,032 ft/561 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lexington 1.5 NNY-GR-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/1,913 ft/442 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Phoenicia 2SWPHON6
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/1,499 ft/28 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 6.8 mi from West Kill, New York. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:30 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 1,014 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.84 inHg and the temperature at 55.4 F; it reports 48.1 F, 7.2 F colder than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 42.12 N, and the day is 10 h 54 min long. Level ground there takes 63 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 1,014 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:30 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.