128-US 20 @ Slm 1.5OH118
Beside a road/7.8 mi away/985 ft/116 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Blakeslee until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Blakeslee is 44° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:47 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Blakeslee, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Fort Wayne (IN), 37 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, 0.97 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Blakeslee, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Blakeslee, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
128-US 20 @ Slm 1.5OH118
Beside a road/7.8 mi away/985 ft/116 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rain gage near Mark Center411815084393703
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.7 mi away/723 ft/146 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DefianceDFI
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/719 ft/150 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW9767CW9767
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.8 mi away/777 ft/92 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Edgerton 3.5 ENEOH-WL-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/866 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MontpelierMOPO1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/866 ft/3 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.3 mi from Blakeslee, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Defiance, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.