Temperature
68 F at 12 AM; 77 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 68F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 77F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 62F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Twin County Airport, Virginia
Small airport in Carroll County, Virginia67°
76°/61°
Clear·
Feels like 67°·Light breeze 6 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 3 AM (50%).
Now. Twin County Airport is 67° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, under cloud. 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 Wednesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
94%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
67feels67
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7661
29%
16mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4844
36%
17mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5234
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5735
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6240
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6343
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6244
UV 6
67°
76°61°
48°44°
52°34°
57°35°
62°40°
63°43°
62°44°
As of 2:00 AM in Twin County Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Twin County Airport
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Wythe Co. (VA), 19 miles off.
12Good
- Ozone12Good-
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Twin County Airport
0.35 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.35in
- Last 3 days
- 0.35in
Visibility
How far you can see at Twin County Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- HLX
- ICAO
- KHLX
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 2,693 ft
- Serves
- Hillsville
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- HLX
- Wind now
- From 170° at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 4,151 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 10° / 190° | 6 mph head, on 19 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Hillsville (HLX), Twin County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 67 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 12 PM Thursday to 98% at 3 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 67F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 96%
- Humidity, range
- 69 to 98%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the south at 12 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 12 AM, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the south
- Strongest
- 6mph
- 12 AM
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.13 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.13inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.04inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.04inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.3 miles at 4 AM Thursday, under a mile for 1 hour; 7 miles now.
- Now
- 7mi
- Lowest
- 0.3mi
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 1
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 200ft
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
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
Hillsville: 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 Twin 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 now3 instruments
HillsvilleHLX
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,736 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Stony Fork Usfs RAWSSFRV2
A remote fire weather station/25.9 mi away/2,562 ft/131 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Reynolds HomesteadS2089
At a soil climate station/39.3 mi away/1,127 ft/1,566 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Hillsville 4.6 WVA-CR-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/2,672 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Galax Water PlantGAAV2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/2,339 ft/354 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Twin County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Woodlawncommunity, 2 mi
- Hillsvilletown, 5 mi
- Austinvillecommunity, 8 mi
- Galaxcity, 9 mi
- Friestown, 9 mi
- Hilltowncommunity, 9 mi
- Fancy Gapcommunity, 10 mi
- Ivanhoecommunity, 10 mi
- Stevens Creekcommunity, 10 mi
- Allisoniacommunity, 13 mi
- Fort Chiswellcommunity, 14 mi
- Baywoodcommunity, 14 mi
Airports near Twin County Airport
- New River Valley AirportPSK, 27 mi
- Mountain Empire AirportMKJ, 30 mi
- Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive AirportBCB, 38 mi
- Blue Ridge AirportMTV, 46 mi
- Tazewell County AirportJFZ, 58 mi
- Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional AirportROA, 61 mi
- Virginia Highlands AirportVJI, 67 mi
- Danville Regional AirportDAN, 84 mi