At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,559 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mountain Empire Airport, Virginia
Small airport in Smyth County, Virginia65°
77°/53°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 65°·Calm 1 mph W
Now. Mountain Empire Airport is 65° and mostly clear at 3 PM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 78°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 61°. Rain or snow is likely Friday (68%), Saturday (85%) and Sunday (74%). Frost is possible Tuesday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:10 PM. The Moon is a waning gibbous, 80% lit, and rises at 9:18 PM. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The day is 11 hours 51 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
-UV
-Air quality
59%Humidity
20%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
65feels65
now, mostly clear
Today
Sep 30
7753
clear day
Thu
Oct 1
7856
clear day
Fri
Oct 2
7859
68%
Sat
Oct 3
6952
85%
Sun
Oct 4
6549
74%
Mon
Oct 5
6337
19%
Tue
Oct 6
6136
clear day
65°
77°53°
78°56°
78°59°
69°52°
65°49°
63°37°
61°36°
As of 11:00 AM in Mountain Empire Airport, Virginia.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MKJ
- ICAO
- KMKJ
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 2,558 ft
- Serves
- Rural Retreat
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MKJ
- Wind now
- Calm, read 30 Sep, 10:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 5,252 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 73° / 253° | Calm | Calm |
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Mountain Empire Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Stony Fork Usfs RAWSSFRV2
A remote fire weather station/12.4 mi away/2,562 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Speedwell 1.5 NNEVA-WT-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/2,360 ft/198 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Burkes GardenBURV2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.7 mi away/3,114 ft/556 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Burkes Garden (BURV2), 13.7 miles from here, read 30 Sep, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Mountain Empire Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Atkinscommunity, 4 mi
- Rural Retreattown, 4 mi
- Sugar Grovecommunity, 9 mi
- Mariontown, 10 mi
- McMullincommunity, 14 mi
- Troutdaletown, 14 mi
- Wythevilletown, 15 mi
- Adwolfcommunity, 15 mi
- Seven Mile Fordcommunity, 16 mi
- Grattoncommunity, 18 mi
- Tazewelltown, 18 mi
- Blandcommunity, 19 mi
Airports near Mountain Empire Airport
- Tazewell County AirportJFZ, 27 mi
- Twin County AirportHLX, 30 mi
- Virginia Highlands AirportVJI, 40 mi
- New River Valley AirportPSK, 41 mi
- Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive AirportBCB, 56 mi
- Lonesome Pine AirportLNP, 65 mi
- Blue Ridge AirportMTV, 76 mi
- Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional AirportROA, 81 mi