Citizen station EW6602EW6602
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/573 ft/44 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 83° today.
Now. Ruckersville is 60° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, with some 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 Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (53%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ruckersville, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Charlottesville (VA), 15 miles off.
Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 4 AM, under a mile for 5 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ruckersville, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ruckersville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW6602EW6602
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/573 ft/44 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.3 mi away/640 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
N Piedmont Arec ScanNPAV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.7 mi away/520 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
N Piedmont ArecS2039
At a soil climate station/14.7 mi away/520 ft/97 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Ruckersville 1.0 WNWVA-GN-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/628 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Charlottesville Albemarle AirportKCHO
At an airfield/7.4 mi away/631 ft/14 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.3 mi from Ruckersville, Virginia. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 300 ft, overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 300 ft; visibility 5 mi.
60.0 F with a dew point of 59.0 F, 96 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 300 ft.
From the northeast (50 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Charlottesville, 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.