Temperature
65 F at 3 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 65F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 90F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 63F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 86° today.
Now. Tom B. David Field is 65° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:14 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The day is 11 hours 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Tom B. David Field, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Rome (GA), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 6,034 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 168° / 348° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Calhoun (CZL), Tom B. David Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
65 F at 3 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 61 F, the air 88% saturated; the humidity ran from 45% at 4 PM Thursday to 88% at 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 3 AM; at its strongest 4 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 3 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 2 AM; 8 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 7 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Calhoun: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Tom B. David Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
CalhounCZL
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/636 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I75 @ SR140GA327
Beside a road/5.6 mi away/781 ft/134 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Carters Lake AT Carters DamCTRG1
At a dam/18.9 mi away/1,089 ft/442 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Calhoun 0.6 ESEGA-GD-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/670 ft/23 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AdairsvilleADAG1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/981 ft/334 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.