Blair Helibase RawsBLHP1
A remote fire weather station/1.6 mi away/1,155 ft/143 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Pennsylvania/Hollidaysburg
Freeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hollidaysburg until 9 AM Sunday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 3 PM (53%).
Now. Hollidaysburg is 74° and rain at 2 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west at 7 mph, gusting to 47 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Altoona (PA), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 3 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest Hollidaysburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Blair Helibase RawsBLHP1
A remote fire weather station/1.6 mi away/1,155 ft/143 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW9996EW9996
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/1,042 ft/30 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SR22 & CressonPA050
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/2,323 ft/1,311 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/10.0 mi away/1,503 ft/491 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rock Springs PaS2036
At a soil climate station/31.2 mi away/1,220 ft/208 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Hollidaysburg 1.9 NPA-BL-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/1,032 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Altoona 3SWALTP1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/1,369 ft/357 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.0 mi from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:33 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,700 ft, broken at 5,000 ft, overcast at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,700 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 47 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
The full report of Altoona/Blair Co., in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Altoona 3SW (ALTP1), 5.9 miles from here, read 7 Oct, 23:59. 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.