Temperature
52 F at 8 AM; 79 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 52 F at its coolest, 8 AM.
- Now
- 52F
- 8 AM
- Highest
- 79F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 52F
- 8 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 56° today.
Now. French Lick Municipal Airport is 47° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:06 AM after midnight. 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in French Lick Municipal Airport, Indiana.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Perry County (IN), 27 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, 0.82 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 5,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 76° / 256° | 1 mph head, on 26 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from French Lick (FRH), French Lick Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
52 F at 8 AM; 79 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 52 F at its coolest, 8 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 52 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 68% at 10 PM Thursday to 100% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the west northwest at 9 AM; at its strongest 12 mph, 7 AM, with a gust of 24 mph at 6 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 9 AM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 10 AM Thursday, under a mile for 3 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 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
French Lick: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest French Lick Municipal 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
French LickFRH
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/778 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Patoka River AT Patoka LakePRLI3
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.2 mi away/571 ft/221 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
LoogooteeIN014
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/526 ft/266 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Bedford 5 WNW63898
At a climate reference station/26.1 mi away/760 ft/32 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
On a farm or research station/4.7 mi away/689 ft/103 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
French Lick 7.5 SIN-OR-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/587 ft/205 ft below 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.