Temperature
59 F at 12 AM; 70 F at its warmest, 6 AM Thursday, and 59 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 59F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 70F
- 6 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 59F
- 8 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Orange County Airport, Virginia
Small airport in Orange County, Virginia59°
83°/57°
Overcast·
Feels like 59°·Calm 0 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 83° today.
Now. Orange County Airport is 59° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 (58%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
96%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
59feels59
10%
Today
Oct 16
8357
37%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5548
58%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
5537
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5937
12%
Tue
Oct 20
6442
10%
Wed
Oct 21
6446
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6246
mostly clear day
59°
83°57°
55°48°
55°37°
59°37°
64°42°
64°46°
62°46°
As of 1:00 AM in Orange County Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Orange County Airport
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Charlottesville (VA), 28 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone12Good3 ppb21.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Orange County Airport
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.15in
- Last 3 days
- 0.24in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 63%
Visibility
How far you can see at Orange County Airport, the next 44 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 4 AM, under a mile for 3 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- OMH
- ICAO
- KOMH
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 465 ft
- Serves
- Orange
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- OMH
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 unlit | 3,200 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 66° / 246° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Orange/Orange Co (OMH), Orange County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 59 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 85% at 8 AM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 59F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 85 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 7mph
- 10 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.08 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.08inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.05inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- +0.05inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 10 PM Thursday; 3 miles now.
- Now
- 3mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 10 PM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
0.11 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.09 in, in the hour to 11 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.11in
- Wettest hour
- 0.09in
- 11 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 3
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Orange/Orange Co: 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 Orange 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/466 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
N Piedmont Arec ScanNPAV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.0 mi away/520 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
N Piedmont ArecS2039
At a soil climate station/4.0 mi away/520 ft/55 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Orange 3.1 EVA-OR-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/468 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OrangeORGV2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/545 ft/80 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Orange (ORGV2), 4.4 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Orange County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Unionvillecommunity, 4 mi
- Orangetown, 4 mi
- Rhoadesvillecommunity, 6 mi
- Blue Ridge Shorescommunity, 10 mi
- Gordonsvilletown, 11 mi
- Brightwoodcommunity, 14 mi
- Barboursvillecommunity, 14 mi
- Madisontown, 15 mi
- Louisatown, 16 mi
- Culpepertown, 16 mi
- Lake of the Woodscommunity, 17 mi
- Lake Wildernesscommunity, 18 mi
Airports near Orange County Airport
- Gordonsville Municipal AirportGVE, 9 mi
- Louisa County Airport / Freeman FieldLKU, 17 mi
- Culpeper Regional AirportCJR, 22 mi
- Charlottesville Albemarle AirportCHO, 23 mi
- Lake Anna Airport7W4, 25 mi
- Warrenton Fauquier AirportHWY, 30 mi
- Shannon AirportEZF, 32 mi
- Stafford Regional AirportRMN, 34 mi