Temperature
69 F at 12 AM; 70 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 60 F at its coolest, 8 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 69F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 70F
- 1 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 60F
- 8 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Crawfordsville Regional Airport is 66° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:03 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Crawfordsville Regional Airport, Indiana.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (IN), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,506 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 43° / 223° | 8 mph head, on 22 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Crawfordsville (CFJ), Crawfordsville Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
69 F at 12 AM; 70 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 60 F at its coolest, 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 67 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 70% at 1 PM Thursday to 96% at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the southwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 10 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 18 mph at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.86 inHg at 12 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.25 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 4 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 5 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Crawfordsville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Crawfordsville Regional 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/799 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
CovingtonIN041
Beside a road/29.0 mi away/560 ft/239 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Crawfordsville 5SCWVI3
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/797 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Crawfordsville 3.5 SSWIN-MY-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/780 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Crawfordsville 5S (CWVI3), 0.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.