Temperature
65 F at 5 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 65F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 87F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 65F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 69° after 86° today.
Now. Henry Tift Myers Airport is 65° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 63): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Sunday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:17 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 25 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Henry Tift Myers Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 63, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Albany (GA), 37 miles off.
Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 5 AM, under a mile for 4 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 3,807 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 94° / 274° | Calm | Calm |
| 16 / 34 | 6,506 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 149° / 329° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Tifton (TMA), Henry Tift Myers Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
65 F at 5 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 39% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 5 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 11 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 5 AM, falling 0.02 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 8 miles at 8 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,900 ft at 1 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 2 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Tifton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Henry Tift Myers Airport, 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 now4 instruments
TiftonTMA
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/355 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little RiverS2027
At a soil climate station/6.1 mi away/350 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Adel 2SAELG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.4 mi away/249 ft/106 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-75 @ SR30/US280GA346
Beside a road/39.8 mi away/302 ft/53 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
TiftonTFTG1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.4 mi away/331 ft/24 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Tifton 1.6 EGA-TF-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/357 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.