Unicoi 1WNWUNIT1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.9 mi away/2,482 ft/767 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM (51%).
Now. Banner Hill is 66° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (95%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:58 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Banner Hill, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Mitchell County (NC), 16 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 41, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Banner Hill, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Banner Hill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Unicoi 1WNWUNIT1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.9 mi away/2,482 ft/767 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7651GW7651
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/1,632 ft/83 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Elizabethton0A9
At an airfield/21.9 mi away/1,594 ft/121 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
ErwinERWT1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/1,637 ft/78 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Erwin 3.5 NETN-UC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/1,988 ft/273 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.9 mi from Banner Hill, Tennessee. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 4,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,300 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Elizabethton, 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.