Richmond, VA weather
Right now 64°, clear · today 74° / 55°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 64° · clear · wind SSW 7 mph · 3° warmer than this time yesterday · at Richmond, 10:50 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Sunny, with a high near 74. South wind 0 to 8 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Richmond
Richmond averages 9 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a occasional snow place. Snow is a few-times-a-year event. Limited equipment means modest amounts cause real disruption.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 9 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 2 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Richmond
The nearest radiosonde launch is Sterling, about 99 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Forecasters covering the Southeast
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Richmond (api.weather.gov), updated Wed, 10:43 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.