Mahoning Creek Reservoir at Mahoning Creek Dam03035500
At a dam/3.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Pennsylvania/Dayton
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Dayton until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 71° today.
Now. Dayton is 52° and light rain at 9 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Dayton, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Indiana County (PA), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 0.45 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dayton, PennsylvaniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dayton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mahoning Creek Reservoir at Mahoning Creek Dam03035500
At a dam/3.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0609GW0609
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/1,493 ft/131 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/18.6 mi away/1,407 ft/45 ft above here
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I-80 MM 67 @ CL School Rd Clario PA US PADOTPA030
Beside a road/20.9 mi away/1,552 ft/190 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Dayton 0.2 SWPA-AR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,339 ft/23 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mahoning LakePNYP1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/1,273 ft/89 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.6 mi from Dayton, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 9:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,200 ft, broken at 2,500 ft, overcast at 2,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 51.8 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mahoning Lake (PNYP1), 3.7 miles from here, read 16 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.