SR515 @ SR5/Blue Ridge Dr.GA321
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/1,762 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 81° today.
Now. Morganton is 66° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 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 Wednesday, near 74°, 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 7:01 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Morganton, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Athens (TN), 44 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Morganton, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Morganton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SR515 @ SR5/Blue Ridge Dr.GA321
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/1,762 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW6927DW6927
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/1,961 ft/199 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Suches/Toccoa #1TCCG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/2,362 ft/600 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BlairsvilleDZJ
At an airfield/14.3 mi away/1,909 ft/147 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Morganton 0.8 WGA-FN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/1,698 ft/64 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ga Mtn Exp STNBLRG1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.3 mi away/2,241 ft/479 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.3 mi from Morganton, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 4,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,000 ft; visibility 2.5 mi.
62.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,000 ft.
Calm.
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.