Meteorological Station At Laurel Fork364258080313700
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/2,877 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 76° today.
Now. Meadows of Dan is 62° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Meadows of Dan, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Wythe Co. (VA), 40 miles off.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Meadows of Dan, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Meadows of Dan, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Meteorological Station At Laurel Fork364258080313700
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/2,877 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8813FW8813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/1,198 ft/1,749 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Reynolds HomesteadS2089
At a soil climate station/16.6 mi away/1,127 ft/1,820 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
MartinsvilleMTV
At an airfield/22.9 mi away/942 ft/2,005 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Meadows of Dan 2.7 NVA-FL-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/3,091 ft/144 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Meadows Of Dan 5SWMODV2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/1,565 ft/1,382 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.9 mi from Meadows of Dan, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 800 ft; the ceiling is 800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
69.0 F with a dew point of 65.5 F, 89 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 800 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Martinsville, 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.