Allegheny River at Natrona03049500
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/736 ft/267 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Pennsylvania/Natrona Heights
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Natrona Heights until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 75° today.
Now. Natrona Heights is 71° and overcast at 12 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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. 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Pittsburgh (PA), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.66 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 10 PM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Natrona Heights, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Allegheny River at Natrona03049500
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/736 ft/267 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW0921EW0921
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/1,074 ft/71 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-376 W/B @ Exit 10A Churchill A PA US PADOTPA064
Beside a road/13.6 mi away/1,030 ft/27 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.8 mi away/1,247 ft/244 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Natrona DamNATP1
At a dam/0.8 mi away/745 ft/258 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Harrison Township 0.6 SEPA-AL-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,013 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.8 mi from Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:12 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 900 ft, broken at 1,800 ft, overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 7 mi.
64.4 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the west (270 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Butler Co. (AWOS), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Natrona Dam (NATP1), 0.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. 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.