At an airfield/8.9 mi away/810 ft/74 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 85° today.
Now. Colbert is 68° and mostly clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 73): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:08 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Colbert, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 73, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Athens-Clarke County (GA), 11 miles off.
Yesterday measured 63, moderate.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 55, moderate, Fri 12 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Colbert, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Colbert, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/810 ft/74 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/695 ft/41 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
North Oconee River At College St, At Athens02217770
On a college campus/10.5 mi away/600 ft/136 ft below here
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SR10-01420-W-01GA361
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/712 ft/24 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Watkinsville #1S2013
At a soil climate station/16.5 mi away/770 ft/34 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Watkinsville 5 SSE63850
At a climate reference station/20.2 mi away/741 ft/5 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Colbert 3.1 SSEGA-OG-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/714 ft/22 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DanielsvilleDANG1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/886 ft/150 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Colbert, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 64.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Athens Municipal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Danielsville (DANG1), 7.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.