SR 515/US-76 @ SR 5/1st Ave.GA325
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/1,398 ft/46 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 81° today.
Now. East Ellijay is 61° and clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 5 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 62): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. 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 11:11 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 day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in East Ellijay, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 62, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Gainesville (GA), 46 miles off.
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over East Ellijay, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest East Ellijay, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SR 515/US-76 @ SR 5/1st Ave.GA325
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/1,398 ft/46 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coosawattee River Near Ellijay02380500
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.1 mi away/1,216 ft/228 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ellijay49A
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/1,459 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4400GW4400
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.0 mi away/1,131 ft/313 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ellijay 2.0 SWGA-GM-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/1,423 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JasperJASG1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.8 mi away/1,499 ft/55 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.8 mi from East Ellijay, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Sky obscured at 500 ft; the ceiling is 500 ft; visibility 3/4 mi.
60.8 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 500 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Ellijay, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Jasper (JASG1), 12.8 miles from here, read 15 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.