SR 322 W/B @ Venango-Mercer Co. PA US PADOTPA071
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/1,306 ft/157 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/Pennsylvania/Cooperstown
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cooperstown until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 68° today.
Now. Cooperstown is 62° and overcast at 12 PM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 11 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. 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 10:27 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Cooperstown, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Mercer County (PA), 23 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.45 in in the last 24 hours, 0.48 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 4 miles Fri 3 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cooperstown, PennsylvaniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Cooperstown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
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SR 322 W/B @ Venango-Mercer Co. PA US PADOTPA071
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/1,306 ft/157 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Allegheny River at Franklin03025500
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/955 ft/194 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.4 mi away/1,539 ft/390 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1508FW1508
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/1,046 ft/103 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cooperstown 1.3 EPA-VN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,341 ft/192 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FranklinFKNP1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/965 ft/184 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.4 mi from Cooperstown, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 800 ft; the ceiling is 800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
62.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 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 800 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Franklin(AWOS), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Franklin (FKNP1), 8.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:05. 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.