Raccoon Creek AT GranvilleGRNO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/902 ft/78 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 66° today.
Now. Alexandria is 69° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (47%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:44 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 day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Alexandria, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Alexandria, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Alexandria, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Raccoon Creek AT GranvilleGRNO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/902 ft/78 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station WB8ZTPWB8ZTP
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/1,122 ft/142 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
NewarkVTA
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/879 ft/101 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
[email protected]OH088
Beside a road/13.3 mi away/974 ft/6 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Alexandria 1.3 NNEOH-LC-49
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,021 ft/41 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Alexandria 2NNWALXO1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/1,071 ft/91 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.2 mi from Alexandria, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 67.0 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 11,000 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Newark, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Alexandria 2NNW (ALXO1), 2.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.