Merrimac, VA Weather

Montgomery County12:29 PM EDT37.19°N, 80.43°WElevation 1,985 ft

Current conditions

Cloudy
51°
Cloudy
Feels like 51°
High 59°·Low 34°
WindENE 5 mph
Humidity73%
Dew point42°
Visibility10.0 mi
Cloud cover10%
UV index4 Moderate
Sunrise7:39 AM
Sunset6:35 PM

Observed at Virginia Tech Airport · 1 hr ago

Forecast

10-day

  • 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.

  • Sunday

    Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. East wind around 3 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 22 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Sunny 51°
  2. 1 PM Sunny 54°
  3. 2 PM Sunny 56°
  4. 3 PM Sunny 57°
  5. 4 PM Sunny 58°
  6. 5 PM Sunny 57°
  7. 6 PM Clear 54°
  8. 7 PM Clear 51°
  9. 8 PM Clear 48°
  10. 9 PM Clear 46°
  11. 10 PM Mostly Clear 45°
  12. 11 PM Mostly Clear 43°
  13. Sun12 AM Mostly Clear 42°
  14. 1 AM Mostly Clear 41°
  15. 2 AM Mostly Clear 40°
  16. 3 AM Mostly Clear 39°
  17. 4 AM Mostly Clear 38°
  18. 5 AM Partly Cloudy 38°
  19. 6 AM Mostly Sunny 36°
  20. 7 AM Mostly Sunny 35°
  21. 8 AM Partly Sunny 36°
  22. 9 AM Mostly Sunny 40°
  23. 10 AM Mostly Sunny 45°
  24. 11 AM Sunny 50°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. FriOct 23 Sunny Sunny36°64°
  2. TodayOct 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

38
Good
Ozone

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

Giles Co., 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 7:39 AM
Sunset 6:35 PM
Daylight 10 h 55 min (−2 min 13 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 97% lit
Moonrise 5:25 PM Moonset 5:54 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low63° / 38°
Month to date4.49 in (normal 2.25 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 3 hrs ago

What Has Changed

Increased cloud cover in the mountains this morning per satellite trends.

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.

Morning update: Layer of stratocu stuck under subsidence inversion holding on across the mountains. Have adjusted sky cover to increase clouds through late morning, but should see the stratocu mix out this afternoon with mostly sunny skies.

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. Frost developing across the Piedmont looks possible Sunday night into Monday, with low temperatures dipping into the low to mid 30s across this region. RH values near 100% combined with light winds overnight look to lead to high probabilities of widespread frost developing. Future frost products for the Piedmont may be necessary in the coming days. As a reminder, no frost/freeze products will be issued for mountain locations as the program has ended for the year.

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 most of the TAF period for all terminals, with the exception of a brief period of MVFR ceilings for KBLF. KROA and KBCB will also see lower BKN to OVC skies, but current thinking is that ceilings will stay low end VFR for those two terminals through the morning period. This cloud cover will erode not long after 12Z, with SKC prevailing by the afternoon. This cloud deck looks to develop once again early Sunday morning for the same terminals; however, confidence is not high enough to include any restrictions at this time for any mountain terminals.

Winds will generally be from the northeast in the Piedmont and southeast in southeast WV through the morning hours, becoming more easterly by the afternoon.

Forecast confidence is high.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK...

VFR conditions will persist into next week. Could see some morning fog, but likely will be confined to rivers and lakes, given the dry airmass overhead.

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