Yorktown USCG Training CenterNDBC-YKTV2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Yorktown, Virginia
Community in York County, Virginia66°
74°/67°
Overcast·
Feels like 66°·Light air 3 mph E
Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday night, from about 12 AM (72%).
Now. Yorktown is 66° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the east at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 65°, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 86°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. Rain is likely tomorrow (72%) and Saturday (94%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
35Air quality
86%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
66feels66
10%
Today
Oct 15
7467
21%
12mph
Fri
Oct 16
8664
72%
13mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6051
94%
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6047
22%
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6449
25%
16mph
Tue
Oct 20
6752
17%
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
6853
13%
15mph
66°
74°67°
86°64°
60°51°
60°47°
64°49°
67°52°
68°53°
As of 11:00 PM in Yorktown, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Yorktown
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Hampton Roads (VA), 21 miles off.
35Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)35Good-
- Ozone24Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)17Good-
The days ahead
Highest 53, moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 56YesterdayOct 14
- 50TodayOct 15
- 53FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Yorktown
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Yorktown, the next 46 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 8 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Yorktown, VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Yorktown, 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
Rank1,469of 1,541
Citizen station GW0631GW0631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/10 ft/47 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Newport NewsPHF
At an airfield/7.1 mi away/43 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cape Charles 5 ENE03739
At a climate reference station/32.6 mi away/29 ft/28 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Yorktown 0.5 SSEVA-YR-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/63 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WilliamsburgWMBV2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.4 mi away/26 ft/31 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Newport News, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.1 mi from Yorktown, Virginia. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:07 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
66.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
The wind
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Newport News, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Yorktown
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Gloucester Pointcommunity, 3 mi
- Newport Newscity, 10 mi
- Poquosoncity, 10 mi
- Bethel Manorcommunity, 10 mi
- Williamsburgcity, 11 mi
- Gloucester Courthousecommunity, 13 mi
- Rushmerecommunity, 15 mi
- Hamptoncity, 16 mi
- Scotlandcommunity, 16 mi
- Mathewscommunity, 17 mi
- Smithfieldtown, 19 mi
- Surrytown, 19 mi