Beside a road/3.6 mi away/1,073 ft/138 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/Pennsylvania/Charlottsville
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Charlottsville until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 78° today.
Now. Charlottsville is 65° and overcast at 4 PM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 PM in Charlottsville, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Altoona (PA), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Charlottsville, PennsylvaniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Charlottsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/3.6 mi away/1,073 ft/138 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Frankstown Branch Of The Juniata AT WilliamsburgWIBP1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.9 mi away/850 ft/85 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6443GW6443
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.2 mi away/1,252 ft/317 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rock Springs PaS2036
At a soil climate station/18.7 mi away/1,220 ft/285 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/24.2 mi away/1,503 ft/568 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tipton 0.3 NWPA-BL-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,027 ft/92 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TyroneTYRP1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.7 mi away/909 ft/26 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.2 mi from Charlottsville, Pennsylvania. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, broken at 3,600 ft, overcast at 8,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 9 mi.
62.0 F with a dew point of 58.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 47 mph.
The full report of Altoona/Blair Co., in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.