At an airfield/13.0 mi away/2,680 ft/811 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 5 AM (62%).
Now. Dante is 66° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, under cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 64): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (93%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 4:00 AM in Dante, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Tri-Cities (TN), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dante, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Dante, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/13.0 mi away/2,680 ft/811 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wise 1SE RAWSWSEV2
A remote fire weather station/14.7 mi away/2,490 ft/621 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Nora 4 SSENORV2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/2,605 ft/736 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Coeburn 5.0 ESEVA-WS-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/1,588 ft/281 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.0 mi from Dante, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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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.