Temperature
64 F at 12 AM; 78 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 78F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 8 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 4 AM (59%).
Now. Brookneal/Campbell County Airport is 64° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is likely tomorrow (82%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Brookneal/Campbell County Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Prince Edward Co. (VA), 33 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 4 AM, under a mile for 5 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 3,798 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 53° / 233° | 8 mph head, on 06 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Brookneal (0V4), Brookneal/Campbell County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
64 F at 12 AM; 78 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 72% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the east northeast at 12 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 12 PM Thursday, with a gust of 22 mph at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.5 miles at 12 AM, under a mile for 2 hours; 0.5 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 10 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 20 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
Brookneal: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Brookneal/Campbell County 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 now2 instruments
Brookneal0V4
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/586 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gladys 0.6 SVA-CM-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/764 ft/168 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrooknealBRKV2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/423 ft/173 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.