Beside a road/3.2 mi away/918 ft/87 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 65° today.
Now. Minerva Park is 70° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 8 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Minerva Park, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.53 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Minerva Park, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Minerva Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/3.2 mi away/918 ft/87 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5447GW5447
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/760 ft/71 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ColumbusCMH
At an airfield/6.5 mi away/810 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alum Creek at Africa03228805
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.6 mi away/822 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Molly Caren #1S2014
At a soil climate station/28.5 mi away/1,060 ft/229 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Columbus 5.9 NNEOH-FR-103
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/863 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/797 ft/34 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.5 mi from Minerva Park, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,700 ft, scattered at 4,800 ft, broken at 15,000 ft; the ceiling is 15,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
70.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,700 ft.
From the south (190 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Columbus, 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.