SR515 @ SR5/Blue Ridge Dr.GA321
Beside a road/7.9 mi away/1,762 ft/133 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 80° today.
Now. McCaysville is 64° and mostly clear at 7 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 6 AM, with some cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 59): 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 57°. Rain is possible tomorrow (33%).
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 7:00 AM in McCaysville, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 59, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Athens (TN), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 55, 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 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over McCaysville, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest McCaysville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SR515 @ SR5/Blue Ridge Dr.GA321
Beside a road/7.9 mi away/1,762 ft/133 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW6927DW6927
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/1,961 ft/332 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CiscoCOHG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 mi away/1,690 ft/61 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BlairsvilleDZJ
At an airfield/23.0 mi away/1,909 ft/280 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/4.1 mi away/1,862 ft/233 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ga Mtn Exp STNBLRG1
At a cooperative observer's station/25.8 mi away/2,241 ft/612 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.0 mi from McCaysville, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:35 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 100 ft; the ceiling is 100 ft; visibility 1/2 mi.
Calm.
At 1,909 ft above sea level, 7 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.91 inHg and the temperature at 52.2 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.13 inHg means its barometer reads 28.11 inHg; it reports 59.0 F, 6.8 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Blairsville, in 5 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.