Temperature
63 F at 1 AM; 84 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 57 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 63F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 84F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 57F
- 3 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 80° today.
Now. Blairsville Airport is 64° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:09 PM. 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 day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Blairsville Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 38 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 5,004 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 72° / 252° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Blairsville (DZJ), Blairsville Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
63 F at 1 AM; 84 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 57 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 99% saturated; the humidity ran from 50% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 1 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.13 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 4 AM Thursday, under a mile for 8 hours; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 1 AM; a base was reported in 16 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Blairsville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Blairsville Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
BlairsvilleDZJ
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,909 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US 76 @ SR11/US19GA322
Beside a road/2.2 mi away/1,867 ft/44 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Suches/Toccoa #1TCCG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.6 mi away/2,362 ft/451 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Blairsville 2.6 WGA-UN-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,834 ft/77 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ga Mtn Exp STNBLRG1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/2,241 ft/330 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.