Tallulah #1 ClaytonTULG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/2,769 ft/678 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 76° today.
Now. Sky Valley is 62° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-northwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:05 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Sky Valley, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 2, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 12 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 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 Sky Valley, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sky Valley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Tallulah #1 ClaytonTULG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/2,769 ft/678 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US 76 @ US 23/US 441GA328
Beside a road/8.7 mi away/1,873 ft/1,574 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ToccoaTOC
At an airfield/27.4 mi away/970 ft/2,477 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6916GW6916
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.2 mi away/1,024 ft/2,423 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dillard 4.6 ENEGA-MC-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/3,814 ft/367 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mountain City 2SWMCTG1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.5 mi away/3,389 ft/58 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.4 mi from Sky Valley, 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 10 mi or more.
64.4 F with a dew point of 62.6 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 Toccoa, 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.