129-US 20 @ Slm 11.5OH119
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/863 ft/3 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Montpelier until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Montpelier is 56° and mostly cloudy 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 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Montpelier, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Jackson (MI), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 0.99 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 5 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Montpelier, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Montpelier, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
129-US 20 @ Slm 11.5OH119
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/863 ft/3 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rain gage at Powers413934084145700
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DefianceDFI
At an airfield/19.3 mi away/719 ft/147 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW9767CW9767
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.7 mi away/777 ft/89 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MontpelierMOPO1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/866 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Pioneer 2.3 SOH-WL-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/874 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.3 mi from Montpelier, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:31 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 900 ft, broken at 1,700 ft, overcast at 2,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.0 F with a dew point of 51.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Defiance, 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.