I-81 S/B @ MM 40 Newville Roadsi PA US PADOTPA023
Beside a road/13.5 mi away/620 ft/47 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/Pennsylvania/Shippensburg University
Now. Shippensburg University is 62° and clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 69°, and the coolest Friday, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 61% lit, and sets at 1:28 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Hagerstown Region (MD), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Mon 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Shippensburg University, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-81 S/B @ MM 40 Newville Roadsi PA US PADOTPA023
Beside a road/13.5 mi away/620 ft/47 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW1671EW1671
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/865 ft/198 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Big KnobBGNP1
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.6 mi away/2,159 ft/1,492 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/23.4 mi away/1,141 ft/474 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
ShippensburgSPBP1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/705 ft/38 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Biglerville 6.4 WNWPA-AD-76
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/1,193 ft/526 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.4 mi from Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 19, 2026, 12:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
63.3 F with a dew point of 33.0 F, 32 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,900 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Shippensburg (SPBP1), 0.8 miles from here, read 18 Oct, 23:59. 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.