Citizen station DW7639DW7639
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/1,823 ft/19 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ripplemead, Virginia
Community in Giles County, Virginia67°
79°/63°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 67°·Calm 1 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 79° today.
Now. Ripplemead is 67° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, with some cloud. 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 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is possible tomorrow (48%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:46 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
95%Humidity
80%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
67feels67
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
7963
53%
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5145
48%
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5634
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6036
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6540
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6643
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
6543
UV 6
67°
79°63°
51°45°
56°34°
60°36°
65°40°
66°43°
65°43°
As of 2:00 AM in Ripplemead, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Ripplemead
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Giles Co. (VA), 3 miles off.
21Good
- Ozone21Good-
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ripplemead
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.26in
- Last 3 days
- 0.26in
Visibility
How far you can see at Ripplemead, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 8 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ripplemead, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Ripplemead, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank1,337of 1,541
East River At Willowton03177120
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.0 mi away/1,584 ft/258 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/2,106 ft/264 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pembroke 0.3 SSEVA-GL-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/1,688 ft/154 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Staffordsville 3 ENESTFV2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.8 mi away/1,873 ft/31 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Dublin/New Riv Vlly, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.8 mi from Ripplemead, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Ripplemead
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pearisburgtown, 2 mi
- Pembroketown, 3 mi
- Egglestoncommunity, 5 mi
- Narrowstown, 7 mi
- Rich Creektown, 8 mi
- Parrottcommunity, 9 mi
- Glen Lyntown, 10 mi
- Belspringcommunity, 11 mi
- Prices Forkcommunity, 14 mi
- Fairlawncommunity, 14 mi
- New Rivercommunity, 15 mi
- Belviewcommunity, 15 mi