HARRISONBURG VA: (Rocktown Now) – An approaching cold front will lead to partly cloudy skies over the Shenandoah Valley today. No rain is expected with the passing of this front. Temperatures will be rising over the next several days, with highs easily reaching the sixties and even the seventies by Thursday. Dry, calm weather will continue into the upcoming weekend and Halloween. A second trough will likely arrive early next week and may bring a little rain for the first week of November.

Here’s the WSVA local forecast for Harrisonburg and the Shenandoah Valley
Today: Patchy fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind.

Tonight: Patchy fog after 10pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around 43. Calm wind.

Wednesday: Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night: Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 44. Calm wind.

Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 73. Calm wind.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 45.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 75.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 68.

Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47.

Sunday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 65. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Sunset today will be at 6:21 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday will be at 7:37 a.m.

Moonrise tonight will be at 7:06 p.m.
Moonset will be tomorrow at 10:43 a.m.

Historical weather data for this date at the Dale Enterprise Weather Station
High: 89 in 1919
Low: 15 in 1962
Precipitation: 2.35 in 1981