Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 83° today.
Now. Charlottesville Albemarle Airport is 61° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, with some cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (50%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Charlottesville (VA), 8 miles off.
Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 6 AM, under a mile for 4 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 6,801 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 22° / 202° | 3 mph head, on 03 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Charlottesville (CHO), Charlottesville Albemarle Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
60 F at 10 PM Thursday; 70 F at its warmest, 2 AM Thursday, and 60 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 59 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 84% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
3 mph from the north northeast at 11 PM Thursday; at its strongest 11 mph, 8 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.13 inHg at 11 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 9 PM Thursday; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.04 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Charlottesville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Charlottesville Albemarle 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/640 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/1,230 ft/591 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
N Piedmont ArecS2039
At a soil climate station/19.4 mi away/520 ft/119 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Charlottesville Albemarle AirportKCHO
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/631 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Charlottesville 6.8 NNEVA-AB-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/498 ft/141 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.