55-IR70 MM 142OH047
Beside a road/1.4 mi away/904 ft/84 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Gratiot until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gratiot is 43° and overcast at 7 AM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:42 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Gratiot, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 41 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.37 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Mon 2 AM, lowest 7 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Gratiot, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Gratiot, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
55-IR70 MM 142OH047
Beside a road/1.4 mi away/904 ft/84 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Blue RockBLRO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/840 ft/148 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW0946DW0946
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.2 mi away/914 ft/74 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
NewarkVTA
At an airfield/14.0 mi away/879 ft/109 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gratiot 4.6 NNEOH-MK-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/1,004 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Water WorksNWKO1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/810 ft/178 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.0 mi from Gratiot, Ohio. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 6:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,600 ft, scattered at 3,200 ft, overcast at 4,900 ft; the ceiling is 4,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,600 ft.
At 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 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 Water Works (NWKO1), 11.7 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 08:00. 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.