Temperature
65 F at 12 AM; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 65F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 89F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Richard B Russell Airport, Georgia
Medium airport in Floyd County, Georgia66°
85°/62°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Calm 0 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 63° after 85° today.
Now. Richard B Russell Airport is 66° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:15 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
8Air quality
100%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
66feels66
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8562
18%
15mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6348
16mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6741
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7042
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7443
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7746
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7847
UV 7
66°
85°62°
63°48°
67°41°
70°42°
74°43°
77°46°
78°47°
As of 1:00 AM in Richard B Russell Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
The air at Richard B Russell Airport
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Rome (GA), 11 miles off.
8Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 84, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 84YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Richard B Russell Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Richard B Russell Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- RMG
- ICAO
- KRMG
- IATA
- RMG
- Field elevation
- 644 ft
- Serves
- Rome
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- RMG
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:43
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 7,010 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 5° / 185° | Calm | Calm |
| 07 / 25 unlit | 4,498 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 70° / 250° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Rome/Russell(RAMOS) (RMG), Richard B Russell Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 65 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 45% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 65F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 45 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 5mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.06 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.06inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.00inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.03inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.2 miles at 5 AM Thursday, under a mile for 7 hours; 0.8 miles now.
- Now
- 0.8mi
- Lowest
- 0.2mi
- 5 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 7
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 10 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 100ft
- 3 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 10
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
Rome/Russell(RAMOS): every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Richard B Russell Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/643 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US27-01318-N-01GA360
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/600 ft/44 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
NaomiNAOG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.8 mi away/1,056 ft/412 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rome 5.2 NGA-FL-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/640 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RomeRMGG1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/669 ft/25 ft above 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.
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Near Richard B Russell Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Shannoncommunity, 4 mi
- Berry Collegecommunity, 5 mi
- Romecity, 6 mi
- Plainvillecity, 8 mi
- Lindalecommunity, 11 mi
- Adairsvillecity, 13 mi
- Summervillecity, 14 mi
- Lyerlytown, 15 mi
- Kingstoncity, 15 mi
- Triontown, 16 mi
- Calhouncity, 16 mi
- Euharleecity, 19 mi
Airports near Richard B Russell Airport
- Tom B. David FieldCZL, 14 mi
- Cartersville AirportVPC, 24 mi
- Barwick Lafayette Airport9A5, 25 mi
- Dalton Municipal AirportDNN, 30 mi
- Silver Comet Field at Paulding Northwest Atlanta AirportPUJ, 33 mi
- Cobb County International Airport-McCollum FieldRYY, 40 mi
- Pickens County AirportJZP, 41 mi
- Gilmer County Airport49A, 41 mi