Merrimac, VA Weather

Montgomery County6:09 PM EDT37.19°N, 80.43°WElevation 1,985 ft

Current conditions

Clear
60°
Clear
Feels like 60°
High 59° Saturday·Low 36° tonight
WindE 5 mph
Humidity44%
Dew point38°
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover2%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:38 AM
Sunset6:36 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Tonight

    Mostly clear, with a low around 36. East wind around 5 mph.

  • Saturday

    Sunny, with a high near 59. Northeast wind 2 to 6 mph.

  • Saturday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 34. Northeast wind 2 to 6 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 4 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Clear 60°
  2. 7 PM Clear 55°
  3. 8 PM Clear 52°
  4. 9 PM Clear 50°
  5. 10 PM Clear 48°
  6. 11 PM Clear 47°
  7. Sat12 AM Mostly Clear 45°
  8. 1 AM Mostly Clear 44°
  9. 2 AM Mostly Clear 43°
  10. 3 AM Mostly Clear 42°
  11. 4 AM Mostly Clear 41°
  12. 5 AM Mostly Clear 40°
  13. 6 AM Mostly Sunny 39°
  14. 7 AM Mostly Sunny 38°
  15. 8 AM Mostly Sunny 38°
  16. 9 AM Mostly Sunny 42°
  17. 10 AM Sunny 45°
  18. 11 AM Sunny 49°
  19. 12 PM Sunny 51°
  20. 1 PM Sunny 54°
  21. 2 PM Sunny 56°
  22. 3 PM Sunny 57°
  23. 4 PM Sunny 58°
  24. 5 PM Sunny 57°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TodayOct 23 Sunny Sunny36°64°
  2. SatOct 24 Sunny Sunny34°59°
  3. SunOct 25 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny36°62°
  4. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny38°68°
  5. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny43°70°
  6. WedOct 28 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny44°64°
  7. ThuOct 29 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny44°69°
  8. FriOct 30 Partly cloudy Partly cloudy43°65°
  9. SatOct 31 Sunny Sunny38°57°
  10. SunNov 1 Cloudy Cloudy37°61°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

44
Good
Ozone

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Giles Co., VA reporting area · 2 hrs ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:38 AM
Sunset 6:36 PM
Daylight 10 h 58 min (−2 min 13 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 94% lit
Moonrise 4:59 PM Moonset 4:50 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low63° / 38°
Record high81° (1947)
Record low18° (1997)
Wettest2.64 in (1900)
Yesterday70° / 35°
Month to date4.49 in (normal 2.17 in)

Blacksburg Area, records since 1893. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in RNK, issued 5 hrs ago

What Has Changed

Aviation updated.

Models continue to have problems with forecasting dewpoints, especially during the afternoon, which impacts the RH forecast. Continue to lower them. Low temperatures were also lowered as wedging developing over the region starting tonight, will start to advect cooler air from the Northeast down into the Mid- Atlantic states.

Key Messages

1) Dry with seasonable temperatures through the end of next week.

Discussion

KEY MESSAGE 1:Dry with seasonable temperatures through the end of next week.

The region will continue to remain under the influence of surface high pressure through next week. With high pressure and mostly clear skies over the region through the next week, temperatures look to moderate to more seasonable values in the 60s and 70s for highs each day, and 30s/40s for lows at night. Overnight temperatures were lowered some as surface wedging looks to develop tonight across the region. This will help advect cooler air from the Northeast into the Mid- Atlantic states over the next several days as high pressure remains quasi-stationary across the Northeast.

At this time, no precipitation is expected through at least the end of next week, and is not looking likely for the remainder of the month.

Aviation

VFR conditions are expected through the TAF period. There is some CAM guidance showing low clouds develop over mountain terminals to include BCB, LWB, and BLF early Saturday morning starting around 10 UTC, but confidence is low at this time given the fairly dry airmass in place to include in those terminals.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK...

VFR conditions likely to continue into next week. Any fog should be limited to over bodies of water, and not foreseeing any issues at the TAF sites.

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