Rocky Mount, VA Weather

Franklin County4:11 PM EDT37.00°N, 79.89°WElevation 1,132 ft

Current conditions

Sunny
66°
Sunny
Feels like 66°
High 67°·Low 44°
WindNE 8 mph gusts 14 mph
Humidity44%
Dew point44°
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover16%
UV index2 Low
Sunrise7:35 AM
Sunset6:34 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday

    Sunny, with a high near 67. North wind 5 to 8 mph.

  • Friday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 44. Northeast wind 3 to 7 mph.

  • Saturday

    Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Northeast wind 2 to 6 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Sunny 66°
  2. 5 PM Sunny 65°
  3. 6 PM Mostly Clear 63°
  4. 7 PM Mostly Clear 60°
  5. 8 PM Mostly Clear 58°
  6. 9 PM Mostly Clear 56°
  7. 10 PM Mostly Clear 54°
  8. 11 PM Clear 53°
  9. Sat12 AM Mostly Clear 52°
  10. 1 AM Mostly Clear 51°
  11. 2 AM Mostly Clear 50°
  12. 3 AM Mostly Clear 49°
  13. 4 AM Mostly Clear 48°
  14. 5 AM Mostly Clear 48°
  15. 6 AM Sunny 47°
  16. 7 AM Mostly Sunny 45°
  17. 8 AM Partly Sunny 46°
  18. 9 AM Mostly Sunny 49°
  19. 10 AM Mostly Sunny 52°
  20. 11 AM Sunny 55°
  21. 12 PM Sunny 57°
  22. 1 PM Sunny 59°
  23. 2 PM Sunny 61°
  24. 3 PM Sunny 62°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 22 Clear Clear45°
  2. TodayOct 23 Sunny Sunny44°67°
  3. SatOct 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny43°64°
  4. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny44°64°
  5. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny48°70°
  6. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny50°71°
  7. WedOct 28 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny50°65°
  8. ThuOct 29 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny69°
  9. FriOct 30 Sunny Sunny43°62°
  10. SatOct 31 Cloudy Cloudy39°58°

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

38
Good
Ozone

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

Forecast

  • FriGood (39)
  • SatGood (33)
  • SunGood (39)

Roanoke, VA reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:35 AM
Sunset 6:34 PM
Daylight 10 h 58 min (−2 min 12 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 93% lit
Moonrise 4:57 PM Moonset 4:48 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low68° / 41°
Record high86° (1941)
Record low25° (1997)
Wettest3.20 in (1990)
Yesterday71° / 37°
Month to date6.04 in (normal 2.51 in)

Rocky Mount, records since 1894. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in RNK, issued 3 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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