Wellesley Lake At Dam At Short Pump0203667630
At a dam/0.5 mi away/241 ft/18 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 11 PM, the chance peaking at 89% around 1 AM.
Now. Short Pump is 62° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the southeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (95%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 Short Pump, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Richmond (VA), 17 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Short Pump, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Short Pump, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Wellesley Lake At Dam At Short Pump0203667630
At a dam/0.5 mi away/241 ft/18 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW5196EW5196
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/165 ft/94 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/207 ft/52 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Richmond 10.9 NWVA-HR-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/279 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CrozierCRZV2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/331 ft/72 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from Short Pump, Virginia. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
62.0 F with a dew point of 60.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Richmond (ASOS), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Crozier (CRZV2), 9.9 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.