Temperature
67 F at 5 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 67F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 87F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport, Georgia
Small airport in Hall County, Georgia68°
81°/65°
Clear·
Feels like 68°·Light breeze 5 mph W
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 81° today.
Now. Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport is 68° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 61): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest Sunday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:10 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
61Air quality
87%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
68feels68
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8165
16mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6350
17mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6244
13mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6645
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7147
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7350
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7352
UV 7
68°
81°65°
63°50°
62°44°
66°45°
71°47°
73°50°
73°52°
As of 6:00 AM in Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
The air at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
Index 61, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Gainesville (GA), 2 miles off.
61Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)61Moderate-
- Coarse particles (PM10)20Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 54YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- GVL
- ICAO
- KGVL
- IATA
- GVL
- Field elevation
- 1,276 ft
- Serves
- Gainesville
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- GVL
- Wind now
- From 270° at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 04:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 unlit | 5,496 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 41° / 221° | 4 mph head, on 23 | 5 mph from the right |
| 11 / 29 unlit | 4,003 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 107° / 287° | 6 mph head, on 29 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Gainsville (GVL), Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 63 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 48% at 3 PM Thursday to 97% at 7 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 63F
- 5 AM
- Humidity now
- 87%
- Humidity, range
- 48 to 97%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
5 mph from the west at 5 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 1 AM, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 5mph
- from the west
- Strongest
- 6mph
- 1 AM
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.08 inHg at 5 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.08inHg
- 5 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,700 ft at 10 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 7 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 4,700ft
- 10 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 7
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Gainsville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lee Gilmer Memorial 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 now4 instruments
GainsvilleGVL
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/0.8 mi away/1,276 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
DawsonvilleDSVG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.9 mi away/1,266 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Watkinsville #1S2013
At a soil climate station/35.2 mi away/770 ft/506 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Gainesville 1.4 WSWGA-HL-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,167 ft/109 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GainesvilleGVLG1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/1,204 ft/72 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Georgia
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AlbanycityAthenscityAtlantacityAugustacityBlairsvillecityBlue RidgetownBrasstown BaldfeatureBrunswickcityChattahoochee National ForestfeatureColumbuscityDahlonegacityDaltoncityGainesvillecityHelencityJekyll IslandfeatureLake LanierfeatureMaconcityOkefenokee SwampfeatureRomecitySavannahcityTybee IslandtownValdostacityWarner Robinscity
Near Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Gainesvillecity, 2 mi
- Oakwoodcity, 4 mi
- Lake Lanierfeature, 6 mi
- Flowery Branchcity, 8 mi
- Talmotown, 9 mi
- Braseltontown, 11 mi
- Gillsvillecity, 12 mi
- Lulacity, 12 mi
- Pendergrasstown, 13 mi
- Rest Haventown, 13 mi
- Hoschtoncity, 13 mi
- Bufordcity, 14 mi
Airports near Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
- Jackson County AirportJCA, 17 mi
- Gwinnett County Briscoe FieldLZU, 22 mi
- Barrow County AirportWDR, 22 mi
- Habersham County AirportAJR, 22 mi
- Cherokee County Regional AirportCNI, 34 mi
- Monroe Walton County AirportD73, 35 mi
- Athens Ben Epps AirportAHN, 37 mi
- Toccoa Airport - R.G. Letourneau FieldTOC, 38 mi