Citizen station WX8TJG-WXWX8TJG-WX
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,186 ft/57 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Candlewood Lake until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 63° today.
Now. Candlewood Lake is 53° and overcast at 6 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 PM in Candlewood Lake, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 45 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.28 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Candlewood Lake, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Candlewood Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station WX8TJG-WXWX8TJG-WX
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,186 ft/57 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
64-IR71 MM 158OH056
Beside a road/8.6 mi away/1,307 ft/64 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MarionMNN
At an airfield/15.4 mi away/988 ft/255 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rain gage at Mansfield404555082310500
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Gilead 0.0 SSEOH-MW-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/1,125 ft/118 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Galion Water WorksGALO1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/1,158 ft/85 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.4 mi from Candlewood Lake, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,800 ft, broken at 3,700 ft, overcast at 4,600 ft; the ceiling is 3,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 49.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Marion, 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.