At an airfield/4.0 mi away/571 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday night, from about 12 AM (78%).
Now. Danville is 70° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 87°, and the coolest Sunday, near 58°. Rain is likely tomorrow (78%) and Saturday (86%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Danville, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Person County (NC), 28 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 50, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 6 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Danville, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Danville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/4.0 mi away/571 ft/108 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW6649FW6649
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/678 ft/215 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Philpott Res At Philpott Dam Nr Philpott02071900
At a dam/37.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
DanvilleDNVV2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.9 mi away/423 ft/40 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Danville 2.0 NNEVA-DNC-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/517 ft/54 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.0 mi from Danville, Virginia. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:22 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
70.0 F with a dew point of 66.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Danville Regional, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Danville (DNVV2), 0.9 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. 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.