MartinsvilleMTV
At an airfield/17.0 mi away/942 ft/244 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 6 AM, the chance peaking at 80% around 9 AM.
Now. Sandy Level is 83° and mostly clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 72° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 7 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 Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (87%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Sandy Level, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Person County (NC), 43 miles off.
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sandy Level, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sandy Level, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MartinsvilleMTV
At an airfield/17.0 mi away/942 ft/244 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Philpott Res At Philpott Dam Nr Philpott02071900
At a dam/22.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW6649FW6649
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.9 mi away/678 ft/20 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Reynolds HomesteadS2089
At a soil climate station/23.6 mi away/1,127 ft/429 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Cascade 4.3 NVA-PT-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/966 ft/268 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Filter PlantMARV2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.6 mi away/781 ft/83 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.0 mi from Sandy Level, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 4,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
83.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 49 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,400 ft.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 6 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
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
Measured at Filter Plant (MARV2), 12.6 miles from here, read 16 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.