Blair Helibase RawsBLHP1
A remote fire weather station/2.0 mi away/1,155 ft/107 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Pennsylvania/Lakemont
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 3 PM (68%).
Now. Lakemont is 59° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
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 6:00 AM in Lakemont, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Altoona (PA), 4 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 4 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lakemont, PennsylvaniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Lakemont, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Blair Helibase RawsBLHP1
A remote fire weather station/2.0 mi away/1,155 ft/107 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6443GW6443
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/1,252 ft/204 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SR22 & CressonPA050
Beside a road/9.1 mi away/2,323 ft/1,275 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/12.1 mi away/1,503 ft/455 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rock Springs PaS2036
At a soil climate station/29.8 mi away/1,220 ft/172 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/0.4 mi away/1,032 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Altoona 3SWALTP1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/1,369 ft/321 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.1 mi from Lakemont, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 200 ft; the ceiling is 200 ft; visibility 5 mi.
57.0 F with a dew point of 57.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 200 ft.
From the south (170 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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), 4.5 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.