Citizen station GW5447GW5447
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/760 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Riverlea until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 65° today.
Now. Riverlea is 53° and partly cloudy at 8 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Riverlea, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 7 miles off.
Highest 53, moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Riverlea, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Riverlea, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station GW5447GW5447
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/760 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/2.8 mi away/918 ft/117 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/3.0 mi away/919 ft/118 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alum Creek at Africa03228805
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.7 mi away/822 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Molly Caren #1S2014
At a soil climate station/24.3 mi away/1,060 ft/259 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Worthington 1.2 SOH-FR-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/819 ft/18 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ColumbusCTVO1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.9 mi away/748 ft/53 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.0 mi from Riverlea, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 6,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
From the west (260 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Columbus/St Univ, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Columbus (CTVO1), 3.9 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. 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.