Citizen station FW6437FW6437
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.5 mi away/1,113 ft/246 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Smith Mountain Lake State Park, Virginia
State Park in Bedford County, Virginia51°
70°/46°
Clear·
Feels like 51°·Light air 3 mph NNE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 78° after 70° today.
Now. Smith Mountain Lake State Park is 51° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 5 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 82°, and the coolest Sunday, near 70°. Rain is likely Sunday (52%) and Monday (55%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
86%Humidity
10%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
51feels51
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7046
UV 6
Wed
Oct 7
7844
UV 6
Thu
Oct 8
8252
UV 6
Fri
Oct 9
7753
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 10
7450
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 11
7052
52%
Mon
Oct 12
7555
55%
51°
70°46°
78°44°
82°52°
77°53°
74°50°
70°52°
75°55°
As of 3:00 AM in Smith Mountain Lake State Park, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Smith Mountain Lake State Park
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Roanoke (VA), 30 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
- Ozone21Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 5
- 22TodayOct 6
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Smith Mountain Lake State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.88 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.88in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Smith Mountain Lake State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.97 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 867 ft
- County
- Bedford County
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 37.0987° N
- Longitude
- 79.5842° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Smith Mountain Lake State Park, 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 now3 instruments
Meteorological STN At Garden City At Roanoke371339079554400
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.0 mi away/1,105 ft/238 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/25.8 mi away/938 ft/71 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Moneta 6.2 SVA-FR-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/845 ft/22 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HuddlestonHUDV2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/869 ft/2 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 Huddleston (HUDV2), 3.7 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Smith Mountain Lake State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- North Shorecommunity, 4 mi
- Monetacommunity, 6 mi
- Westlake Cornercommunity, 7 mi
- Penhookcommunity, 7 mi
- Union Hallcommunity, 7 mi
- Motleycommunity, 13 mi
- Hurttown, 16 mi
- Gretnatown, 16 mi
- Stewartsvillecommunity, 16 mi
- Altavistatown, 16 mi
- Bedfordtown, 17 mi
- Henry Forkcommunity, 18 mi