Merrell RidgeMERO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.4 mi away/823 ft/267 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 1 PM (59%).
Now. Stafford is 70° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 7 mph, gusting to 24 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 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (65%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Stafford, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Parkersburg (WV), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 10, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.57 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Stafford, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Stafford, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Merrell RidgeMERO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.4 mi away/823 ft/267 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,181 ft/91 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CambridgeCDI
At an airfield/24.0 mi away/792 ft/298 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2173GW2173
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.6 mi away/962 ft/128 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lower Salem 9.0 ENEOH-MN-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/877 ft/213 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hannibal Lock & DamHANO1
At a dam/21.9 mi away/617 ft/473 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.0 mi from Stafford, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.8 F with a dew point of 68.7 F, 96 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Cambridge, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hannibal Lock & Dam (HANO1), 21.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.