Meteorological Station At Bland370609081071801
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/2,502 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 78° today.
Now. Bland is 64° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 6 AM, under cloud. 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 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (66%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Bland, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Wythe Co. (VA), 11 miles off.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 1 AM.
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The 5 instruments nearest Bland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Meteorological Station At Bland370609081071801
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/2,502 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW3020GW3020
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/2,320 ft/129 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/19.3 mi away/2,559 ft/110 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bland 0.4 NEVA-BL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/2,481 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wytheville 1 SWYTV2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.0 mi away/2,195 ft/254 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.3 mi from Bland, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 3,600 ft, overcast at 4,400 ft; the ceiling is 3,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 65.5 F, 92 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,600 ft.
Calm.
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.