At an airfield/10.2 mi away/712 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 72° today.
Now. Chapel Hill is 51° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:17 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Chapel Hill, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Nashville (TN), 32 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 53, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Chapel Hill, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Chapel Hill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/10.2 mi away/712 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station W4BJB-13W4BJB-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/740 ft/43 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
RAWS Site Lewisburg TowerLSBT1
A remote fire weather station/17.7 mi away/1,207 ft/510 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
McAllister FarmS2075
At a soil climate station/39.6 mi away/913 ft/216 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Chapel Hill 0.9 NETN-ML-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/700 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Christiana 5WCSTT1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.7 mi away/758 ft/61 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.2 mi from Chapel Hill, Tennessee. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
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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.