I-75 @ SR30/US280GA346
Beside a road/1.7 mi away/302 ft/7 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 88° today.
Now. Cordele is 76° and mostly clear at 10 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the west-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° 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 64): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:17 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Cordele, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Albany (GA), 32 miles off.
Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cordele, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Cordele, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-75 @ SR30/US280GA346
Beside a road/1.7 mi away/302 ft/7 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CordeleCKF
At an airfield/1.9 mi away/307 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Chokee Creek At New York Road, Near Leesburg02350470
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/236 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8427FW8427
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.6 mi away/352 ft/43 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Little RiverS2027
At a soil climate station/34.7 mi away/350 ft/41 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Crisp Co Pwr ComCDLG1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/302 ft/7 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ashburn 0.8 ESEGA-TR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.6 mi away/415 ft/106 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 1.7 mi from Cordele, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:19 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 1.25 mi.
77.9 F with a dew point of 63.8 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up.
From the west (271 degrees) at 5 mph, gusting 9 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 12 mph.
The full report of I-75 @ SR30/US280, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.