Brookneal0V4
At an airfield/7.4 mi away/586 ft/69 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 5 AM (79%).
Now. Brookneal is 64° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, with some 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 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (91%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Brookneal, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Prince Edward Co. (VA), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 24, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 5 AM, under a mile for 3 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brookneal, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Brookneal, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Brookneal0V4
At an airfield/7.4 mi away/586 ft/69 ft above here
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Roanoke (Staunton) River At Randolph02066000
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.6 mi away/307 ft/210 ft below here
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Citizen station FW3585FW3585
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.0 mi away/870 ft/353 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BrooknealBRKV2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/423 ft/94 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Brookneal 7.4 NVA-CM-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.5 mi away/633 ft/116 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.4 mi from Brookneal, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 200 ft; the ceiling is 200 ft; visibility 2 mi.
62.6 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 200 ft.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Brookneal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.