125-Ridgewood Rd. Over Rt 21OH115
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/1,039 ft/13 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 65° today.
Now. Sharon Center is 69° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (83%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Sharon Center, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Canton and Massillon (OH), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, 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; 0.55 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sharon Center, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Sharon Center, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
125-Ridgewood Rd. Over Rt 21OH115
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/1,039 ft/13 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station AA3CS-1AA3CS-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/1,177 ft/125 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rain gage at Rittman405844081464800
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AkronAKR
At an airfield/14.3 mi away/1,066 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wooster 3 SSE54856
At a climate reference station/24.4 mi away/1,102 ft/50 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Wadsworth 2.1 NNEOH-MD-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/1,247 ft/195 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Norton 3NENRBO1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/974 ft/78 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.3 mi from Sharon Center, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:40 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,000 ft, scattered at 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 90 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,000 ft.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Akron, 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.