SR56 & Babcock MtnPA051
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/2,500 ft/1,214 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/Pennsylvania/New Paris
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for New Paris until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 3 PM, the chance peaking at 58% around 4 PM.
Now. New Paris is 77° and mostly cloudy at 12 PM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the west-southwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 56° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in New Paris, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Johnstown (PA), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, 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; 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over New Paris, PennsylvaniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest New Paris, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SR56 & Babcock MtnPA051
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/2,500 ft/1,214 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BedfordHMZ
At an airfield/7.1 mi away/1,150 ft/136 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW9098CW9098
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.3 mi away/1,230 ft/56 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Blair Helibase RawsBLHP1
A remote fire weather station/25.9 mi away/1,155 ft/131 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Windber 7SEWNBP1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/2,615 ft/1,329 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rainsburg 5.0 NNWPA-BD-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.2 mi away/1,270 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.1 mi from New Paris, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,500 ft, broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
80.4 F with a dew point of 63.3 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,000 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,500 ft.
From the west southwest (240 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Bedford, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.