Hiwassee River At Riverside Dr, Nr Hiawassee03544970
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/1,966 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 81° today.
Now. Young Harris is 66° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 62°, 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:08 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 12:00 AM in Young Harris, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Macon County (NC), 29 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
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 Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Young Harris, GeorgiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Young Harris, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Hiwassee River At Riverside Dr, Nr Hiawassee03544970
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/1,966 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US 76 @ SR11/US19GA322
Beside a road/8.0 mi away/1,867 ft/44 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BlairsvilleDZJ
At an airfield/10.2 mi away/1,909 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW6927DW6927
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.2 mi away/1,961 ft/50 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Young Harris 1.8 NNWGA-UN-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,824 ft/87 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ga Mtn Exp STNBLRG1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/2,241 ft/330 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.2 mi from Young Harris, Georgia. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,200 ft; visibility 7 mi.
64.4 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,200 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.