ChesterfieldFCI
At an airfield/0.8 mi away/236 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM, the chance peaking at 82% around 6 AM.
Now. Pocahontas State Park is 64° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 AM, under cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 56): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (98%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Pocahontas State Park, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 56, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Richmond (VA), 8 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Pocahontas State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ChesterfieldFCI
At an airfield/0.8 mi away/236 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2294FW2294
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/184 ft/19 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Met Station At Varina Public Library At Varina372738077224501
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.4 mi away/133 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chester 4.5 WNWVA-CS-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/213 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Winterpock 4WWTPV2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/303 ft/100 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.