Blue Marsh Lake near Bernville01470870
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Pennsylvania/New Schaefferstown
New Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania
Community in Berks County, Pennsylvania* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 32 expected. * WHERE...In New Jersey, Morris, Warren, and Hunterdon Counties. In Pennsylvania, Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, Upper Bucks, Western Chester, and Western Montgomery Counties. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
48°
52°/44°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 43°·Moderate breeze 13 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for New Schaefferstown until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. New Schaefferstown is 48° and mostly cloudy at 10 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:15 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
23Air quality
63%Humidity
75%Cloud
Now
10:00 AM
48feels43
13mph
Today
Oct 17
5244
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5834
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6437
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6742
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6444
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6442
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 23
6646
mostly clear day
48°
52°44°
58°34°
64°37°
67°42°
64°44°
64°42°
66°46°
As of 10:00 AM in New Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
The air at New Schaefferstown
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Lehigh Valley (PA), 32 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good11.6 mi
- Ozone23Good24 ppb11.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
GoodModerate
- 25YesterdayOct 16
- 5TodayOct 17
- 13SunOct 18
- 35MonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at New Schaefferstown
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.18 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.15in
- Last 3 days
- 0.18in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 83%
Visibility
How far you can see at New Schaefferstown, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest New Schaefferstown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank702of 1,394
I-78 W/B @ MM 27 Berks Co.PA052
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/466 ft/29 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/11.9 mi away/344 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station N8EUL-13N8EUL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/363 ft/132 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mahantango CkS2028
At a soil climate station/30.0 mi away/730 ft/235 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Bernville 1.3 SWPA-BR-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/387 ft/108 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Blue Marsh LakePLVP1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/279 ft/216 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Reading/Spaatz Fld, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.9 mi from New Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 9:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
50.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,600 ft up.
The wind
From the north (10 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Blue Marsh Lake (PLVP1), 8.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
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