AbingdonVJI
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/2,070 ft/62 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 51° today.
Now. Emory is 50° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 43° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:51 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Emory, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Tri-Cities (TN), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 7 AM.
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On the radar over Emory, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Emory, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
AbingdonVJI
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/2,070 ft/62 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW2463DW2463
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.7 mi away/2,266 ft/134 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Meteorological Station At Volney363703081224101
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.3 mi away/2,583 ft/451 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Glade Spring 1.6 NNEVA-WH-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/2,150 ft/18 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Saltville 1 NSLTV2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/1,818 ft/314 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.7 mi from Emory, Virginia. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,700 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 5 mi.
50.0 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Abingdon, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Saltville 1 N (SLTV2), 8.7 miles from here, read 16 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.