Rain gage at Lancaster394225082360100
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/820 ft/133 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 67° today.
Now. Hide-A-Way Hills is 70° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 68°, 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 40° by 8 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 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Hide-A-Way Hills, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hide-A-Way Hills, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hide-A-Way Hills, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rain gage at Lancaster394225082360100
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/820 ft/133 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
12-US-33 @ SR793OH012
Beside a road/8.2 mi away/1,036 ft/83 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW3403CW3403
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/946 ft/7 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
LancasterLHQ
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/853 ft/100 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sugar Grove 4.5 ENEOH-HK-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/977 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LoganLGNO1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.5 mi away/758 ft/195 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.3 mi from Hide-A-Way Hills, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 10,000 ft, scattered at 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 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 10,000 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Lancaster, 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.