Coal River At Tornado03200500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/570 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/West Virginia/St. Albans
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 3 PM (57%).
Now. St. Albans is 71° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (72%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in St. Albans, West Virginia.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Charleston (WV), 11 miles off.
Yesterday measured 22, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.40 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 4 miles Fri 4 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over St. Albans, West VirginiaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest St. Albans, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Coal River At Tornado03200500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/570 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station WA8SIEWA8SIE
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/660 ft/54 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/981 ft/375 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Saint AlbansSTAW2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.9 mi away/620 ft/14 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
St. Albans 1.0 WNWWV-KN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/658 ft/52 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.3 mi from St. Albans, West Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 7,000 ft; the ceiling is 7,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.0 F with a dew point of 71.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,000 ft.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Saint Albans (STAW2), 0.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.