Temperature
72 F at 1 AM; 72 F at its warmest, 10 PM Thursday, and 59 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 72F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 72F
- 10 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 59F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana
Medium airport in Miami County, Indiana71°
58°/49°
Light rain·
Feels like 71°·Moderate breeze 18 mph WSW
Now. Grissom Air Reserve Base is 71° and light rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the west-southwest at 18 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
83%Humidity
77%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
71feels71
38%
18mph
Today
Oct 16
5849
74%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5637
15%
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6435
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6939
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7242
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7344
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7446
mostly clear day
71°
58°49°
56°37°
64°35°
69°39°
72°42°
73°44°
74°46°
As of 2:00 AM in Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana.
Air quality
The air at Grissom Air Reserve Base
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Kokomo (IN), 6 miles off.
15Good
- Ozone15Good16 ppb11.8 mi
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Grissom Air Reserve Base
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
Visibility
How far you can see at Grissom Air Reserve Base, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- GUS
- ICAO
- KGUS
- IATA
- GUS
- Field elevation
- 812 ft
- Serves
- Peru
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- GUS
- Wind now
- From 240° at 23 mph, read 16 Oct, 01:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 12,501 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt | 44° / 224° | 22 mph head, on 23 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Grissom AFB/Peru (GUS), Grissom Air Reserve Base's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 68 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 72% at 1 PM Thursday to 94% at 11 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 68F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 87%
- Humidity, range
- 72 to 94%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
17 mph from the west southwest at 1 AM; at its strongest 17 mph, 1 AM, with a gust of 29 mph at 1 AM.
- Now
- 17mph
- from the west southwest
- Strongest
- 17mph
- 1 AM
- Highest gust
- 29mph
- 1 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.77 inHg at 1 AM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.34 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.77inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.03inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.34inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 6 miles at 5 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 6mi
- 5 PM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 800 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 800ft
- 8 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 5 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Wettest hour
- 0.01in
- 5 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 7
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Grissom AFB/Peru: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Grissom Air Reserve Base, 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/810 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
KokomoIN007
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/776 ft/36 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Galveston 1.9 NIN-CS-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/768 ft/44 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Young AmericaYNGI3
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/778 ft/34 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Young America (YNGI3), 11.0 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Indiana
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Grissom Air Reserve Base
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Grissom AFBcommunity, 2 mi
- Bunker Hilltown, 3 mi
- Miamicommunity, 3 mi
- Lincolncommunity, 4 mi
- Onwardtown, 4 mi
- Bennetts Switchcommunity, 5 mi
- Waltontown, 5 mi
- Galvestontown, 5 mi
- Cassvillecommunity, 6 mi
- Perucity, 9 mi
- Anokacommunity, 9 mi
- North Grovecommunity, 10 mi
Airports near Grissom Air Reserve Base
- Kokomo Municipal AirportOKK, 10 mi
- Logansport Cass County AirportGGP, 12 mi
- Marion Municipal AirportMZZ, 27 mi
- Fulton County AirportRCR, 29 mi
- White County AirportMCX, 32 mi
- Frankfort Clinton County Regional AirportFKR, 34 mi
- Huntington Municipal AirportHHG, 39 mi
- Indianapolis Executive AirportTYQ, 43 mi