Citizen station GW2921GW2921
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/2,595 ft/593 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 78° today.
Now. Rocky Gap is 67° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, under cloud. 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 Wednesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (73%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Rocky Gap, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Wythe Co. (VA), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.26 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
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rocky Gap, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Rocky Gap, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW2921GW2921
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/2,595 ft/593 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Meteorological Station At Bland370609081071801
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/2,502 ft/500 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/24.7 mi away/2,106 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bland 0.4 NEVA-BL-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/2,481 ft/479 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Burkes GardenBURV2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.2 mi away/3,114 ft/1,112 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.7 mi from Rocky Gap, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Burkes Garden (BURV2), 16.2 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.