New River Near Galax03164000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/2,207 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
New River Trail State Park, Virginia
State Park in Grayson County, Virginia63°
78°/62°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 63°·Light breeze 4 mph SW
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 6 AM, the chance peaking at 68% around 8 AM.
Now. New River Trail State Park is 63° and mostly clear at 8 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (77%). 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 10:50 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
4Air quality
99%Humidity
21%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
63feels63
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
7862
28%
15mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5144
77%
16mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5534
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5936
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6441
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6644
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6545
mostly clear day
63°
78°62°
51°44°
55°34°
59°36°
64°41°
66°44°
65°45°
As of 8:00 AM in New River Trail State Park, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at New River Trail State Park
Index 4, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Wythe Co. (VA), 17 miles off.
4Good
- Ozone4Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at New River Trail State Park
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.39in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
Visibility
How far you can see at New River Trail State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,170 ft
- County
- Grayson County
- State
- Virginia
- Latitude
- 36.7152° N
- Longitude
- 80.9763° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest New River Trail State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW2288FW2288
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/2,740 ft/570 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HillsvilleHLX
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/2,736 ft/566 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fries 0.2 ESEVA-GR-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/2,195 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Galax Water PlantGAAV2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/2,339 ft/169 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near New River Trail State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Friestown, under 1 mi
- Hilltowncommunity, 1 mi
- Stevens Creekcommunity, 1 mi
- Galaxcity, 5 mi
- Baywoodcommunity, 7 mi
- Ivanhoecommunity, 9 mi
- Woodlawncommunity, 10 mi
- Austinvillecommunity, 10 mi
- Independencetown, 12 mi
- Hillsvilletown, 14 mi
- Fort Chiswellcommunity, 15 mi
- Fancy Gapcommunity, 16 mi