Temperature
70 F at 2 AM; 71 F at its warmest, 1 AM, and 60 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 71F
- 1 AM
- Lowest
- 60F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Indianapolis Executive Airport is 69° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the west at 14 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:04 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Indianapolis Executive Airport, Indiana.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Indianapolis (IN), 20 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 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
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 7,001 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 179° / 359° | 3 mph head, on 18 | 17 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Indianapolis Exec (TYQ), Indianapolis Executive Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
70 F at 2 AM; 71 F at its warmest, 1 AM, and 60 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 66 F, the air 85% saturated; the humidity ran from 73% at 1 PM Thursday to 95% at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the west at 2 AM; at its strongest 16 mph, 2 AM, with a gust of 24 mph at 2 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.84 inHg at 2 AM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.27 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 5 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 500 ft at 6 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 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 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Indianapolis Exec: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Indianapolis Executive 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/922 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-31 at SR-32IN056
Beside a road/6.2 mi away/899 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Westfield 5.3 WSWIN-HM-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/915 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WhitestownWHTI3
At a cooperative observer's station/4.8 mi away/932 ft/10 ft above 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.