Citizen station FW0435FW0435
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/488 ft/36 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 29 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 83° today.
Now. Hillsboro is 71° and partly cloudy at 11 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Hillsboro, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Martinsburg (WV), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 15, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hillsboro, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hillsboro, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW0435FW0435
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/488 ft/36 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Meteorological Station At Lovettsville391556077381600
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.6 mi away/481 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/12.2 mi away/390 ft/134 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Round Hill 2.6 NWVA-LD-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/1,196 ft/672 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lincoln 2SPURV2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/415 ft/109 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.2 mi from Hillsboro, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 500 ft; the ceiling is 500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 500 ft.
From the south (180 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Leesburg/Godfrey, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lincoln 2S (PURV2), 7.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:30. 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.