Temperature
64 F at 5 AM; 76 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 64F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 76F
- 1 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM, the chance peaking at 80% around 6 AM.
Now. Farmville Regional Airport is 64° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (94%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Farmville Regional Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Prince Edward Co. (VA), 9 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 7 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 4,400 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 19° / 199° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Farmville (FVX), Farmville Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
64 F at 5 AM; 76 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 84% at 1 PM Thursday to 100% at 6 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 5 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 11 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.01 inHg at 5 AM, falling 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 miles at 5 AM; 1 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 9 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 3 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Farmville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Farmville Regional 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 now1 instrument
FarmvilleFVX
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/410 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Farmville 2.4 NWVA-PN-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/413 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FarmvilleFARV2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/440 ft/24 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.