Temperature
61 F at 12 AM; 73 F at its warmest, 5 AM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 11 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 61F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 73F
- 5 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 11 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (53%).
Now. Lake Anna Airport is 61° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (84%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:32 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Lake Anna Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Richmond (VA), 39 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 2,558 ft | 50 ft | Asphalt | - | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Bumpass (7W4), Lake Anna Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
61 F at 12 AM; 73 F at its warmest, 5 AM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 61 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 83% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.05 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 7 miles at 8 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,000 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Bumpass: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Lake Anna 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 now3 instruments
Bumpass7W4
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/341 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bowling Green - Fort AP HillFAPV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.1 mi away/222 ft/133 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
N Piedmont ArecS2039
At a soil climate station/27.4 mi away/520 ft/165 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Mineral 7.0 EVA-LS-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/283 ft/72 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LouisaLOUV2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.1 mi away/394 ft/39 ft above 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.