Citizen station GW7627GW7627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,357 ft/115 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 29 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 81° today.
Now. Sherando is 60° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the south-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. 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 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is possible tomorrow (42%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Sherando, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Charlottesville (VA), 26 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
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sherando, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sherando, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW7627GW7627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,357 ft/115 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WaynesboroW13
At an airfield/6.7 mi away/1,414 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sewage PlantSTAV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/1,325 ft/147 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ShenandoahS2088
At a soil climate station/13.9 mi away/1,763 ft/291 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Stuarts Draft 3.1 SEVA-AG-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/1,489 ft/17 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waynesboro Water Treatment PlantWYNV2
At a water treatment plant/8.2 mi away/1,329 ft/143 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.7 mi from Sherando, Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.5 F with a dew point of 59.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the southeast (130 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Waynesboro, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Sewage Plant (STAV2), 12.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.