Sugar RunSGRW2
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/2,339 ft/797 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/West Virginia/Pickens
Pickens, West Virginia
Community in Randolph County, West Virginia62°
73°/62°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 62°·Gentle breeze 8 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 28 degrees cooler: a high of 45° after 73° today.
Now. Pickens is 62° and partly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 8 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 45°. Rain is likely tomorrow (53%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
5Air quality
78%Humidity
46%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
62feels62
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
7362
80%
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
4535
53%
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
5428
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5831
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6135
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6338
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6339
mostly clear day
62°
73°62°
45°35°
54°28°
58°31°
61°35°
63°38°
63°39°
As of 8:00 AM in Pickens, West Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Pickens
Index 5, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Greenbrier County (WV), 57 miles off.
5Good
- Ozone5Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 17, good.
GoodModerate
- 17YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pickens
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.71 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.13in
- Last 3 days
- 0.71in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 18%
Visibility
How far you can see at Pickens, the next 43 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 4 PM, under a mile for 2 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pickens, West VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Pickens, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank693of 711
Citizen station GW5272GW5272
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.1 mi away/2,024 ft/1,112 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BuckhannonW22
At an airfield/23.5 mi away/1,634 ft/1,502 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pickens 0.9 ESEWV-RD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/3,107 ft/29 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Park Office Within Kambrabow St ForestKUMW2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/3,579 ft/443 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in West Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Pickens
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Helvetiacommunity, 3 mi
- Valley Headcommunity, 12 mi
- Huttonsvilletown, 13 mi
- Bergoocommunity, 13 mi
- Mill Creektown, 14 mi
- Rock Cavecommunity, 14 mi
- Parcoalcommunity, 16 mi
- Addison (Webster Springs)town, 17 mi
- Adriancommunity, 17 mi
- Valley Bendcommunity, 17 mi
- Hinklevillecommunity, 18 mi
- East Daileycommunity, 19 mi