Amherst, VA Weather

Amherst County12:04 AM EDT37.59°N, 79.05°WElevation 761 ft

Current conditions

Mostly Clear
49°
Mostly Clear
Feels like 49°
High 65°·Low 40° tonight
WindNE 2 mph
Humidity64%
Dew point38°
Visibility9.9 mi
Cloud cover11%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:34 AM
Sunset6:29 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 40. Northeast wind 2 to 7 mph.

  • Saturday

    Sunny, with a high near 65. Northeast wind 2 to 6 mph.

  • Saturday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 39.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Mostly Clear 49°
  2. 1 AM Mostly Clear 48°
  3. 2 AM Mostly Clear 47°
  4. 3 AM Mostly Clear 46°
  5. 4 AM Mostly Clear 45°
  6. 5 AM Mostly Clear 45°
  7. 6 AM Sunny 43°
  8. 7 AM Sunny 42°
  9. 8 AM Mostly Sunny 42°
  10. 9 AM Sunny 46°
  11. 10 AM Sunny 50°
  12. 11 AM Sunny 54°
  13. 12 PM Sunny 57°
  14. 1 PM Sunny 59°
  15. 2 PM Sunny 62°
  16. 3 PM Sunny 63°
  17. 4 PM Sunny 64°
  18. 5 PM Sunny 63°
  19. 6 PM Clear 60°
  20. 7 PM Clear 57°
  21. 8 PM Clear 54°
  22. 9 PM Clear 52°
  23. 10 PM Mostly Clear 44°
  24. 11 PM Mostly Clear 43°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. ThuOct 22 Sunny Sunny42°71°
  2. FriOct 23 Sunny Sunny40°67°
  3. TodayOct 24 Sunny Sunny39°65°
  4. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny39°66°
  5. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny44°72°
  6. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny47°71°
  7. WedOct 28 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny47°66°
  8. ThuOct 29 Cloudy Cloudy48°69°
  9. FriOct 30 Sunny Sunny43°62°
  10. SatOct 31 Cloudy Cloudy40°59°

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

31
Good
Ozone

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

Natural Bridge, 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 7:34 AM
Sunset 6:29 PM
Daylight 10 h 54 min (−2 min 15 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 95% lit
Moonrise 5:19 PM Moonset 5:49 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low66° / 42°
Month to date3.50 in (normal 2.36 in)

Lynchburg Regional Airport, records since 1944. 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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