Citizen station GW7879GW7879
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/967 ft/115 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 31 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 85° today.
Now. Luray is 64° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Luray, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Shenandoah National Park (VA), 9 miles off.
Yesterday measured 27, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 6 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Luray, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Luray, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW7879GW7879
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/967 ft/115 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
LurayLUA
At an airfield/2.6 mi away/902 ft/50 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Virginia Headquarters RawsLHQV2
A remote fire weather station/4.5 mi away/1,168 ft/316 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
N Piedmont ArecS2039
At a soil climate station/34.8 mi away/520 ft/332 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Luray 2.0 ESEVA-PG-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/960 ft/108 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LurayLRYV2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/1,316 ft/464 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.6 mi from Luray, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 10,000 ft; the ceiling is 10,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.2 F with a dew point of 62.6 F, 88 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 10,000 ft.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Luray, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.