Temperature
69 F at 12 AM; 77 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 69F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 77F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 65F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
New River Valley Airport, Virginia
Small airport in Pulaski County, Virginia68°
78°/61°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 68°·Calm 0 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 78° today.
Now. New River Valley Airport is 68° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 7 AM, with some 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 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
98%Humidity
71%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
68feels68
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
7861
50%
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5045
42%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5432
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5934
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6438
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6541
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6441
UV 6
68°
78°61°
50°45°
54°32°
59°34°
64°38°
65°41°
64°41°
As of 1:00 AM in New River Valley Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at New River Valley Airport
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Giles Co. (VA), 14 miles off.
24Good
- Ozone24Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 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 New River Valley Airport
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 0.07in
Visibility
How far you can see at New River Valley Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- PSK
- ICAO
- KPSK
- IATA
- PSK
- Field elevation
- 2,105 ft
- Serves
- Dublin
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- PSK
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 6,201 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 52° / 232° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Dublin/New Riv Vlly (PSK), New River Valley Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 68 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 73% at 3 PM Thursday to 97% at 6 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 68F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 97%
- Humidity, range
- 73 to 97%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
1 mph from the east southeast at 12 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 1mph
- from the east southeast
- Strongest
- 5mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.10 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.10inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.03inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 8 AM Thursday; 5 miles now.
- Now
- 5mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
0.12 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.11 in, in the hour to 3 AM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.12in
- Wettest hour
- 0.11in
- 3 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Dublin/New Riv Vlly: 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 New River Valley 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/2,106 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Stony Fork Usfs RAWSSFRV2
A remote fire weather station/28.9 mi away/2,562 ft/457 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dublin 0.3 NVA-PL-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/2,112 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Radford 3NRADV2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/1,778 ft/327 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 New River Valley Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near New River Valley Airport
- Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive AirportBCB, 16 mi
- Twin County AirportHLX, 27 mi
- Mountain Empire AirportMKJ, 41 mi
- Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional AirportROA, 41 mi
- Blue Ridge AirportMTV, 51 mi
- Tazewell County AirportJFZ, 62 mi
- Ingalls FieldHSP, 73 mi
- Virginia Highlands AirportVJI, 81 mi