Citizen station GW0548GW0548
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/98 ft/27 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 77° after 90° today.
Now. The Villages is 74° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 73° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 74°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:18 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 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in The Villages, Florida.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lake County (FL), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over The Villages, FloridaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest The Villages, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0548GW0548
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/98 ft/27 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/12.1 mi away/79 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Palatlakaha R At Structure M-1, Nr Okahumpka02237293
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sellers Lake #1S2012
At a soil climate station/25.7 mi away/75 ft/4 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Wildwood 4.5 NEFL-ST-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/66 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LisbonLSBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.4 mi away/85 ft/14 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.1 mi from The Villages, Florida. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.0 F with a dew point of 70.0 F, 84 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.