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At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/73 ft/174 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alston, Georgia
Town in Montgomery County, Georgia67°
88°/65°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 67°·Light air 4 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 88° today.
Now. Alston is 67° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Sunday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:11 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 23 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
51Air quality
95%Humidity
20%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
67feels67
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
8865
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7060
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6549
14mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7150
12mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7652
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7753
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7753
UV 6
67°
88°65°
70°60°
65°49°
71°50°
76°52°
77°53°
77°53°
As of 4:00 AM in Alston, Georgia.
Air quality
The air at Alston
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Douglas (GA), 42 miles off.
51Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate-
- Coarse particles (PM10)17Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 51YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Alston
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Alston, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Alston, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Alston, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank648of 1,277
At an airfield/9.9 mi away/276 ft/29 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6570GW6570
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.4 mi away/258 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/30.4 mi away/210 ft/37 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Vidalia 3.3 SWGA-TM-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/278 ft/31 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MetterMETG1
At a cooperative observer's station/32.7 mi away/231 ft/16 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Vidalia Muni Airport, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 9.9 mi from Alston, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Georgia
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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