Citizen station EW2896EW2896
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/846 ft/21 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 66° today.
Now. Newark is 70° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph, gusting to 17 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (46%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 2:00 AM in Newark, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.93 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Newark, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Newark, 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
Citizen station EW2896EW2896
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/846 ft/21 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
North Fork Licking River at Newark03146277
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.6 mi away/827 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
NewarkVTA
At an airfield/3.5 mi away/879 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
55-IR70 MM 142OH047
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/904 ft/37 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Newark 1.9 SSEOH-LC-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/843 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Water WorksNWKO1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/810 ft/57 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.5 mi from Newark, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 67.0 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 11,000 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Newark, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Water Works (NWKO1), 1.9 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 08:00. 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.