Kinchafoonee Creek At Preston02350600
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/338 ft/233 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 87° today.
Now. Richland is 65° and mostly clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, 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 55° 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 Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:20 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 23 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Richland, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 7, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Columbus-Phenix City - GA and AL (AL), 34 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 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Richland, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Richland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Kinchafoonee Creek At Preston02350600
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.8 mi away/338 ft/233 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort BenningLSF
At an airfield/26.1 mi away/233 ft/338 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-185 @ SR 85GA350
Beside a road/33.6 mi away/423 ft/148 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.6 mi away/401 ft/170 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lumpkin 2.2 SWGA-SW-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/556 ft/15 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Experiment STNPLNG1
On a farm or research station/16.9 mi away/515 ft/56 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.1 mi from Richland, Georgia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 1/4 mi.
62.6 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Fort Benning, 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.