I-176 E/B @ SR 422 Interchange B PA US PADOTPA062
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/285 ft/169 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/Pennsylvania/Mount Penn
Freeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Mount Penn 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 evening, from about 6 PM (60%).
Now. Mount Penn is 68° and light rain at 6 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 6 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 PM in Mount Penn, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Lehigh Valley (PA), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest Mount Penn, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
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I-176 E/B @ SR 422 Interchange B PA US PADOTPA062
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/285 ft/169 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Schuylkill River at Reading01471510
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/185 ft/269 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/248 ft/206 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.3 mi away/344 ft/110 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Avondale 2 N03761
At a climate reference station/33.6 mi away/400 ft/54 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Reading 2.9 ESEPA-BR-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/384 ft/70 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Blue Marsh LakePLVP1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/279 ft/175 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.3 mi from Mount Penn, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 3,300 ft; the ceiling is 3,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
67.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,300 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Blue Marsh Lake (PLVP1), 8.5 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:30. 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.