103-US33 @ Pickerington RoadOH093
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/796 ft/35 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lithopolis until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 66° today.
Now. Lithopolis is 57° and overcast at 2 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
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 tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:46 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Lithopolis, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 15 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.37 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lithopolis, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Lithopolis, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
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103-US33 @ Pickerington RoadOH093
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/796 ft/35 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/745 ft/86 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2946GW2946
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/925 ft/94 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain gage at Lancaster394225082360100
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.5 mi away/820 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Molly Caren #1S2014
At a soil climate station/34.9 mi away/1,060 ft/229 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Canal Winchester 1.0 SSWOH-FR-108
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/763 ft/68 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LockbourneCNSO1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/692 ft/139 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.8 mi from Lithopolis, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,400 ft, overcast at 1,900 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.8 F with a dew point of 53.2 F, 91 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
The full report of Rickenbacker Ang, 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.