20-SR502 @ Slm 0.5OH020
Beside a road/10.2 mi away/1,114 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. New Madison is 70° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 9 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:53 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in New Madison, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Muncie (IN), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.36 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over New Madison, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest New Madison, 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
20-SR502 @ Slm 0.5OH020
Beside a road/10.2 mi away/1,114 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW0680EW0680
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/1,034 ft/70 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
VersaillesVES
At an airfield/18.9 mi away/1,007 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Stillwater River at Pleasant Hill03265000
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.7 mi away/846 ft/258 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
New Madison 0.5 SWOH-DR-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,104 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
West Manchester 3 SWWSMO1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/1,099 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.9 mi from New Madison, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 6,500 ft, a few clouds at 7,000 ft, broken at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.6 F with a dew point of 69.8 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,500 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Versailles, 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.