Kiskiminetas River at Vandergrift03048500
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/769 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Pennsylvania/Apollo
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 1 PM, the chance peaking at 63% around 2 PM.
Now. Apollo is 71° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the southwest at 13 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, 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 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Apollo, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 52, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Pittsburgh (PA), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.86 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Apollo, PennsylvaniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Apollo, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Kiskiminetas River at Vandergrift03048500
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.5 mi away/769 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4829GW4829
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.0 mi away/1,147 ft/294 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-376 W/B @ Exit 10A Churchill A PA US PADOTPA064
Beside a road/17.0 mi away/1,030 ft/177 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/23.0 mi away/1,184 ft/331 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Vandergrift 0.4 ESEPA-WT-76
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/964 ft/111 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SalinaSLNP1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/1,194 ft/341 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.0 mi from Apollo, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:47 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 4,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.6 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,300 ft.
From the south southwest (200 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Salina (SLNP1), 5.3 miles from here, read 15 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.