Grant Town, WV Weather Forecast and Current Conditions (26574)
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This Date in Weather History
1987 - The western U.S. continued to sizzle. Afternoon highs of 85 degrees at Astoria OR, 101 degrees at Tucson AZ, and 102 degrees at Sacramento CA, equalled October records. It marked the fourth time in the month that Sacramento tied their record for October.
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Grant Town 7 Day Weather Forecast Details
Monday Oct 6
Day: Sunny, with a high near 82. South wind around 5 mph.
Night: A slight chance of rain showers after 2am. Mostly clear, with a low around 60. South wind 1 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Oct 7
Day: Rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Night: Rain showers before 7pm, then rain showers and patchy fog between 7pm and 8pm, then showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 11pm, then areas of fog and showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 53. West wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Wednesday Oct 8
Day: Rain showers before 8am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 65. North wind around 12 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 38.
Thursday Oct 9
Day: Sunny, with a high near 64.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 39.
Friday Oct 10
Day: Sunny, with a high near 68.
Night: Patchy fog after 1am. Mostly clear, with a low around 42.
Saturday Oct 11
Day: Patchy fog before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.
Night: Patchy fog between midnight and 4am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44.
Sunday Oct 12
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 45.
Sun & Moon Monthly
Sunrise 7:22 AM
Sunset 6:56 PM
Last Light 7:23 PM
Moonset 6:38 AM
Contiguous United States Extremes
Sun's High Temperature
99 at Rio Grande Village, TX
Sun's Low Temperature
15 at 27 Miles South Of Bonanza, UT
Weather Folklore
When walls are wet, expect some rain.
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About Grant Town, West Virginia
Grant Town is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, in the eastern United States. The population was 690 at the 2020 census.
The town was formed in 1901 with the opening of the Federal Coal and Coke Company bituminous coal mine, and was named for Robert Grant, vice president of the coal company. The "Federal No. 1" mine remained open for the next 84 years until its closure in 1985. At one point it was the largest underground coal mine in the world in terms of gross production, mining the Pittsburgh coal seam. The town was incorporated as a municipality in 1946.
Grant Town is the site of an 80 Megawatt electrical generation facility, located adjacent to the coal refuse areas above the town. The plant, which was built in the early 1990s is controlled by Edison International and generates electricity using a fluidized bed combustion boiler process burning waste coal.
Grant Town is the location of a number of the stories of the West Virginia ghost story anthology The Telltale Lilac Bush, by Fairmont State University professor Ruth Ann Musick. The town, the mine and surrounding farms are prominently featured in a number of the stories. Musick includes a description of the town, circa 1965, in an introduction to a section on mine ghost stories:
"The Grant Town Mine, the scene of four of the stories here, is one of the largest in the United States, and possibly in the world. The town itself, with a population of a little over a thousand, is about seven miles northwest of Fairmont. Surrounded by hills, it is a kind of a sunken garden--a well at the bottom of the stairway of hills and highways--so that it seems to be in a world of its own. In a way, perhaps, it is. At least fourteen different European nationalities live in the town and work in the mine."
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