Temperature
70 F at 12 AM; 78 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 78F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 3 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Lonesome Pine Airport, Virginia
Small airport in Wise County, Virginia68°
74°/62°
Overcast·
Feels like 68°·Light breeze 5 mph SSW
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 1 AM, the chance peaking at 63% around 3 AM.
Now. Lonesome Pine Airport is 68° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 6 AM, under cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 47°. Rain is likely tomorrow (90%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:55 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.
0UV Low
54Air quality
83%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
68feels68
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
7462
62%
13mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
4741
90%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5732
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6136
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6340
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6643
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6744
UV 6
68°
74°62°
47°41°
57°32°
61°36°
63°40°
66°43°
67°44°
As of 12:00 AM in Lonesome Pine Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Lonesome Pine Airport
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Pikeville (KY), 34 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)54Moderate-
- Ozone6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lonesome Pine Airport
0.16 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.16in
- Last 3 days
- 0.16in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lonesome Pine Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- LNP
- ICAO
- KLNP
- IATA
- LNP
- Field elevation
- 2,684 ft
- Serves
- Wise
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- LNP
- Wind now
- From 200° at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 5,131 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 56° / 236° | 5 mph head, on 24 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Wise/Lonesome Pine (LNP), Lonesome Pine Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 64 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 70% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 64F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 83%
- Humidity, range
- 70 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the south southwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 11 mph, 11 AM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the south southwest
- Strongest
- 11mph
- 11 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 17mph
- 4 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.13 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.13inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 1 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 1 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 8,500ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 500ft
- 2 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 24
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.09 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.07 in, in the hour to 1 AM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.09in
- Wettest hour
- 0.07in
- 1 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 3
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Wise/Lonesome Pine: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Lonesome Pine 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,680 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wise 1SE RAWSWSEV2
A remote fire weather station/2.1 mi away/2,490 ft/194 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wise 2EWISV2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.9 mi away/2,605 ft/79 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Norton 0.4 WNWVA-NTC-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/2,270 ft/414 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Lonesome Pine Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Lonesome Pine Airport
- Virginia Highlands AirportVJI, 34 mi
- Tazewell County AirportJFZ, 41 mi
- Lee County Airport0VG, 44 mi
- Mountain Empire AirportMKJ, 65 mi
- Twin County AirportHLX, 96 mi
- New River Valley AirportPSK, 103 mi
- Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive AirportBCB, 118 mi
- Blue Ridge AirportMTV, 141 mi