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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/West Virginia/Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, West Virginia
State Park in Pocahontas County, West Virginia* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northeast Kentucky, southeast Ohio, southwest Virginia, and central, northeast, northern, southeast, southern, and western West Virginia. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
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45°
50°/40°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 58° after 50° today.
Now. Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is 45° and mostly cloudy at 12 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:40 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
20Air quality
62%Humidity
85%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
45feels40
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 17
5040
22%
Sun
Oct 18
5832
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6534
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6938
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6638
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6638
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 23
6540
mostly clear day
45°
50°40°
58°32°
65°34°
69°38°
66°38°
66°38°
65°40°
As of 12:00 PM in Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, West Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Greenbrier County (WV), 24 miles off.
20Good
- Ozone20Good21 ppb23.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 0.79 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.11in
- Last 3 days
- 0.79in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 14%
Visibility
How far you can see at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 2,796 ft
- County
- Pocahontas County
- State
- West Virginia
- Latitude
- 38.1116° N
- Longitude
- 80.2770° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/18.7 mi away/2,303 ft/493 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5624GW5624
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.0 mi away/2,145 ft/651 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Falling Spring 2.7 NWWV-GB-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/2,459 ft/337 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/22.4 mi away/1,906 ft/890 ft below 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 White Sulphur Springs (WSUW2), 22.4 miles from here, read 17 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in West Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Hillsborotown, 4 mi
- Falling Springtown, 9 mi
- Marlintontown, 13 mi
- Huntersvillecommunity, 15 mi
- Monongahela National Forestfeature, 15 mi
- Richwoodcity, 16 mi
- Fenwickcommunity, 18 mi
- White Sulphur Springscity, 22 mi
- Lewisburgcity, 23 mi
- Quinwoodtown, 24 mi
- Nettiecommunity, 24 mi
- Ruperttown, 25 mi
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- Cass Scenic Railroad State Park28 mi
- Cass Area of Cass Scenic Railroad State Park28 mi
- Bald Knob Area of Cass Scenic Railroad State Park30 mi
- Summersville Lake State Park33 mi
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