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A remote fire weather station/15.2 mi away/3,133 ft/337 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/West Virginia/Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, West Virginia
State Park in Pocahontas County, West Virginia* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 degrees will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Northwest Pocahontas, Northwest Randolph, Southeast Pocahontas, Southeast Randolph, and Barbour Counties. * WHEN...Until 9 AM EDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Additional information can be found at https://www.weather.gov/rlx as well as on our X and Facebook pages.
43°
67°/39°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 41°·Light air 3 mph N
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is 43° and partly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 65°. Rain is likely Monday (56%). Rain is possible Sunday (49%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:06 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
5Air quality
100%Humidity
42%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
43feels41
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 6
6739
UV 6
Wed
Oct 7
7342
UV 6
Thu
Oct 8
7448
UV 6
Fri
Oct 9
7245
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 10
7044
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 11
6547
49%
Mon
Oct 12
7051
56%
43°
67°39°
73°42°
74°48°
72°45°
70°44°
65°47°
70°51°
As of 2:00 AM in Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, West Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Greenbrier County (WV), 24 miles off.
5Good
- Ozone5Good2 ppb23.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 5
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.47 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.47in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, the next 43 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
- 0.5 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,796 ft
- County
- Pocahontas County
- State
- West Virginia
- Latitude
- 38.1116° N
- Longitude
- 80.2770° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/2,303 ft/493 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5624GW5624
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.0 mi away/2,145 ft/651 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Falling Spring 2.7 NWWV-GB-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/2,459 ft/337 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/22.4 mi away/1,906 ft/890 ft below 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 White Sulphur Springs (WSUW2), 22.4 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 06:45. measured daily
Elsewhere in West Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Hillsborotown, 4 mi
- Falling Springtown, 9 mi
- Marlintontown, 13 mi
- Huntersvillecommunity, 15 mi
- Monongahela National Forestfeature, 15 mi
- Richwoodcity, 16 mi
- Fenwickcommunity, 18 mi
- White Sulphur Springscity, 22 mi
- Lewisburgcity, 23 mi
- Quinwoodtown, 24 mi
- Nettiecommunity, 24 mi
- Ruperttown, 25 mi
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