62-IR71 MM 91OH054
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/876 ft/79 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Harrisburg 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 54° after 65° today.
Now. Harrisburg is 52° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:48 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Harrisburg, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 16 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
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Harrisburg, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Harrisburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
62-IR71 MM 91OH054
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/876 ft/79 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW8482FW8482
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/784 ft/13 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.5 mi away/906 ft/109 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little Darby Creek at West Jefferson03230310
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.0 mi away/879 ft/82 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Molly Caren #1S2014
At a soil climate station/17.6 mi away/1,060 ft/263 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Harrisburg 3.7 WNWOH-FR-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/952 ft/155 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LockbourneCNSO1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/692 ft/105 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.5 mi from Harrisburg, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,000 ft, broken at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 47.3 F, 87 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 6,000 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Bolton Field Air, 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.