Dale EnterpriseDALV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/1,319 ft/49 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 29 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 82° today.
Now. Dayton is 65° and partly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under 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 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (48%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Dayton, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Harrisonburg (VA), 4 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dayton, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dayton, 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 now4 instruments
Dale EnterpriseDALV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/1,319 ft/49 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BridgewaterVBW
At an airfield/3.5 mi away/1,146 ft/124 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5812GW5812
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,294 ft/24 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ShenandoahS2088
At a soil climate station/37.2 mi away/1,763 ft/493 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Dayton 0.4 WVA-RH-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,263 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Dale EnterpriseDALV2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/1,319 ft/49 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.5 mi from Dayton, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
65.3 F with a dew point of 65.3 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the south southeast (160 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Bridgewater, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Dale Enterprise (DALV2), 2.5 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.