Guyandotte River At Branchland03204000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.5 mi away/548 ft/38 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/West Virginia/West Hamlin
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 77° today.
Now. West Hamlin is 71° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 71°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (54%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in West Hamlin, West Virginia.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Huntington (WV), 16 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest West Hamlin, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Guyandotte River At Branchland03204000
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.5 mi away/548 ft/38 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW2301GW2301
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/607 ft/21 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/20.5 mi away/837 ft/251 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Branchland 5.6 ESEWV-LN-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/706 ft/120 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pea Ridge WWTPPRDW2
At a water treatment plant/11.0 mi away/558 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.5 mi from West Hamlin, West Virginia. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:51 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 8,000 ft, overcast at 9,500 ft; the ceiling is 8,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
74.0 F with a dew point of 72.0 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 8,000 ft.
From the south (190 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.