At a river or reservoir gauge/11.6 mi away/918 ft/113 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 84° today.
Now. Lexington is 64° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. 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 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Lexington, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Natural Bridge (VA), 12 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lexington, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lexington, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.6 mi away/918 ft/113 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ShenandoahS2088
At a soil climate station/16.1 mi away/1,763 ft/732 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/24.2 mi away/3,793 ft/2,762 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5611GW5611
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.3 mi away/1,882 ft/851 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lexington 0.6 NEVA-RK-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/1,036 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WWTP - CoopBUVV2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/814 ft/217 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.2 mi from Lexington, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 4 mi.
66.0 F with a dew point of 65.3 F, 98 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at WWTP - Coop (BUVV2), 6.0 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.