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A remote fire weather station/22.3 mi away/2,490 ft/1,177 ft above here
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Coming up. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 81° today.
Now. Hiltons is 66° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 5 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (49%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Hiltons, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Tri-Cities (TN), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in 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 Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hiltons, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Hiltons, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.0 miles away.
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Wise 1SE RAWSWSEV2
A remote fire weather station/22.3 mi away/2,490 ft/1,177 ft above here
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At an airfield/23.3 mi away/2,680 ft/1,367 ft above here
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Citizen station DW6569DW6569
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.8 mi away/1,729 ft/416 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Gate City 6.2 NNEVA-SC-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/1,966 ft/653 ft above here
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Big Stone GapBSTV2
At a cooperative observer's station/22.7 mi away/1,834 ft/521 ft above here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.3 mi from Hiltons, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 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.