Temperature
65 F at 1 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 1 AM.
- Now
- 65F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 86F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 65F
- 1 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Middlesboro-Bell County Airport, Kentucky
Small airport in Bell County, Kentucky65°
79°/63°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 65°·Calm 0 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 79° today.
Now. Middlesboro-Bell County Airport is 65° and partly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 7 AM, under cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (53%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:02 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
100%Humidity
43%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
65feels65
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
7963
46%
12mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5644
53%
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6436
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6838
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7142
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7345
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7446
mostly clear day
65°
79°63°
56°44°
64°36°
68°38°
71°42°
73°45°
74°46°
As of 2:00 AM in Middlesboro-Bell County Airport, Kentucky.
Air quality
The air at Middlesboro-Bell County Airport
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Speedwell (TN), 13 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-0.2 mi
- Ozone12Good-
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Middlesboro-Bell County Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Middlesboro-Bell County Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- 1A6
- ICAO
- -
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,154 ft
- Serves
- Middlesboro
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- 1A6
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 01:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 unlit | 3,633 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 98° / 278° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Middlesboro-Bell (1A6), Middlesboro-Bell County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 65 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 58% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM.
- Dew point now
- 65F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 58 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 1 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 8mph
- 12 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.05 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.05inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 3 miles at 1 AM; 3 miles now.
- Now
- 3mi
- Lowest
- 3mi
- 1 AM
- 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 500 ft at 1 AM; a base was reported in 19 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 500ft
- 1 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 19
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Middlesboro-Bell: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Middlesboro-Bell County 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,155 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Middlesboro 2SE - Yellow CreekYELK2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/1,172 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-25 at mile 1211_25_0012
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Middlesborough 7.4 ENEKY-BL-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/1,300 ft/146 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WaterplantBBVK2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.5 mi away/981 ft/173 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 Waterplant (BBVK2), 19.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Kentucky
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Middlesboro-Bell County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Middlesboroughcity, 1 mi
- Middlesborocity, 1 mi
- Pinevillecity, 11 mi
- Arjaycommunity, 14 mi
- Flat Lickcommunity, 16 mi
- Artemuscommunity, 17 mi
- Pathforkcommunity, 18 mi
- Barbourvillecity, 20 mi
- Coldironcommunity, 22 mi
- Pleasant Viewcommunity, 22 mi
- South Wallinscommunity, 23 mi
- Emlyncommunity, 23 mi
Airports near Middlesboro-Bell County Airport
- Tucker Guthrie Memorial AirportI35, 27 mi
- Williamsburg Whitley County AirportBYL, 29 mi
- London-Corbin Airport/Magee FieldLOZ, 38 mi
- Lake Cumberland Regional AirportSME, 57 mi
- Wendell H Ford AirportCPF, 60 mi
- Wayne County AirportEKQ, 64 mi
- Julian Carroll AirportJKL, 72 mi
- Central Kentucky Regional AirportRGA, 78 mi