At an airfield/5.5 mi away/3,793 ft/1,595 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 74° after 66° today.
Now. Douthat State Park is 50° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest Sunday, near 64°. Rain is likely Sunday (51%) and Monday (56%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:04 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 37 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Douthat State Park, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Natural Bridge (VA), 22 miles off.
Yesterday measured 15, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Douthat State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/3,793 ft/1,595 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lime Kiln RAWSLKRV2
A remote fire weather station/7.6 mi away/2,018 ft/180 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW3256DW3256
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.0 mi away/1,424 ft/774 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ShenandoahS2088
At a soil climate station/32.4 mi away/1,763 ft/435 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Clifton Forge 3.5 EVA-AL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/1,184 ft/1,014 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hot SpringsHSPV2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/2,303 ft/105 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hot Springs (HSPV2), 8.5 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.