Citizen station DW2463DW2463
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/2,266 ft/279 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 77° today.
Now. Seven Mile Ford is 66° and partly cloudy at 9 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 8 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 6 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 (67%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 9:00 AM in Seven Mile Ford, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Wythe Co. (VA), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Seven Mile Ford, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
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Citizen station DW2463DW2463
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/2,266 ft/279 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/16.0 mi away/2,559 ft/572 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Meteorological Station At Volney363703081224101
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.9 mi away/2,583 ft/596 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Marion 8.3 WVA-SM-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/2,121 ft/134 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Saltville 1 NSLTV2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.0 mi away/1,818 ft/169 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.0 mi from Seven Mile Ford, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
64.8 F with a dew point of 62.2 F, 91 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 600 ft up.
From the west (260 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Saltville 1 N (SLTV2), 10.0 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.