BlakelyBIJ
At an airfield/17.1 mi away/213 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 86° today.
Now. Fort Gaines is 65° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:23 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 3:00 AM in Fort Gaines, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 7, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Columbus-Phenix City - GA and AL (AL), 48 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fort Gaines, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Fort Gaines, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
BlakelyBIJ
At an airfield/17.1 mi away/213 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sfrg1 Precip STN, Philadelphia Rd, Nr Lumpkin315738084513301
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.8 mi away/576 ft/361 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Newton 8 W63828
At a climate reference station/39.8 mi away/176 ft/39 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily1 instrument
Fort Gaines 7.3 ENEGA-CY-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/265 ft/50 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.1 mi from Fort Gaines, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 7 mi.
60.8 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
Calm.
The full report of Blakely, 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.