Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 84° today.
Now. Thomaston Upson County Airport is 67° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 77): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest Sunday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:16 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Thomaston Upson County Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 77, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Macon (GA), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 6,350 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 118° / 298° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Thomaston (OPN), Thomaston Upson County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
64 F at 11 PM Thursday; 86 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 56 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 11 PM Thursday; at its strongest 6 mph, 1 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.11 inHg at 11 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
The lowest cloud base came down to 5,500 ft at 1 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 1 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
Thomaston: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Thomaston Upson County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ThomastonOPN
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/797 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-75 @ Monroe Weigh StationGA345
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/614 ft/184 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BolingbrokeBOLG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.9 mi away/430 ft/368 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
The Rock 1.0 NGA-UP-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/772 ft/26 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ThomastonTHSG1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/755 ft/43 ft below 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.