At an airfield/8.9 mi away/3,793 ft/2,674 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Special Weather Statement, in full
Alert. A Special Weather Statement is in force for Cliftondale Park until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 5 AM (53%).
Now. Cliftondale Park is 68° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 2 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 Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (61%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Cliftondale Park, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Natural Bridge (VA), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.27 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Cliftondale Park, 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/3,793 ft/2,674 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lime Kiln RAWSLKRV2
A remote fire weather station/11.3 mi away/2,018 ft/899 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW3256DW3256
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.4 mi away/1,424 ft/305 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ShenandoahS2088
At a soil climate station/33.3 mi away/1,763 ft/644 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Clifton Forge 0.5 SEVA-AL-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,292 ft/173 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Filter Plant LARC USACE DcpCFPV2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/1,257 ft/138 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Cliftondale Park, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 5 mi.
65.0 F with a dew point of 64.4 F, 98 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 100 ft up.
From the southwest (230 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Filter Plant LARC USACE Dcp (CFPV2), 10.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.