Merrell RidgeMERO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/823 ft/192 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Matamoras (New Matamoras) until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 1 AM, the chance peaking at 60% around 2 AM.
Now. Matamoras (New Matamoras) is 54° and light rain at 10 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 5 mph, gusting to 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:40 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Matamoras (New Matamoras), Ohio.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Parkersburg (WV), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Matamoras (New Matamoras), OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Matamoras (New Matamoras), how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Merrell RidgeMERO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/823 ft/192 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/17.8 mi away/1,181 ft/550 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW2173GW2173
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.4 mi away/962 ft/331 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Matamoras 4.8 NOH-MN-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/888 ft/257 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hannibal Lock & DamHANO1
At a dam/14.7 mi away/617 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 8.1 mi from Matamoras (New Matamoras), Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:32 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
54.0 F with a dew point of 53.4 F, 98 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 100 ft up.
From the west northwest (293 degrees) at 2 mph, gusting 6 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 19 mph.
At 823 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.04 inHg and the temperature at 56.1 F; it reports 54.0 F, 2.1 F colder than standard.
The full report of Merrell Ridge, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hannibal Lock & Dam (HANO1), 14.7 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:00. 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.