Perkiomen Creek AT GraterfordGRAP1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/161 ft/57 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Pennsylvania/Schwenksville
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Schwenksville until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM (55%).
Now. Schwenksville is 69° and rain at 7 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 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 now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 PM in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 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
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 6 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
On the radar over Schwenksville, PennsylvaniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Schwenksville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Perkiomen Creek AT GraterfordGRAP1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/161 ft/57 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/308 ft/90 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7071FW7071
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/406 ft/188 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SR 309 N/B @ I-276 Ft Washington PA US PADOTPA008
Beside a road/16.5 mi away/174 ft/44 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Avondale 2 N03761
At a climate reference station/32.6 mi away/400 ft/182 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Schwenksville 0.1 EPA-MT-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/152 ft/66 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Spring City 2WSWSGCP1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/253 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.9 mi from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,200 ft, broken at 4,900 ft, broken at 6,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,900 ft; visibility 9 mi.
71.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
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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.