SR515 @ SR5/Blue Ridge Dr.GA321
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/1,762 ft/93 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Epworth until 12 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 80° today.
Now. Epworth is 71° and overcast at 6 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 5 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:10 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 6:00 PM in Epworth, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Athens (TN), 36 miles off.
Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Epworth, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Epworth, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SR515 @ SR5/Blue Ridge Dr.GA321
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/1,762 ft/93 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW6927DW6927
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.0 mi away/1,961 ft/292 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CiscoCOHG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.2 mi away/1,690 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BlairsvilleDZJ
At an airfield/22.5 mi away/1,909 ft/240 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mineral Bluff 3.9 NNWGA-FN-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,862 ft/193 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ga Mtn Exp STNBLRG1
At a cooperative observer's station/25.4 mi away/2,241 ft/572 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.5 mi from Epworth, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,200 ft, broken at 5,000 ft, overcast at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 60.3 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,200 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Blairsville, 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.