Temperature
55 F at 5 PM; 81 F at its warmest, 6 PM Thursday, and 53 F at its coolest, 2 PM.
- Now
- 55F
- 5 PM
- Highest
- 81F
- 6 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 53F
- 2 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Madisonville Regional Airport is 56° and overcast at 5 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Madisonville Regional Airport, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Owensboro (KY), 33 miles off.
Yesterday measured 39, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,051 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 52° / 232° | 4 mph head, on 23 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Madisonville (2I0), Madisonville Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
55 F at 5 PM; 81 F at its warmest, 6 PM Thursday, and 53 F at its coolest, 2 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 41 F, the air 58% saturated; the humidity ran from 56% at 10 PM Thursday to 90% at 9 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the west northwest at 5 PM; at its strongest 16 mph, 7 AM, with a gust of 26 mph at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.21 inHg at 5 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.25 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 8 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,100 ft at 9 AM; a base was reported in 19 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.03 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 8 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Madisonville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Madisonville 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 now4 instruments
Madisonville2I0
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/440 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-69 at mile 116.502_69_116
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Princeton #1 ScanPTNK2
At a river or reservoir gauge/29.8 mi away/615 ft/176 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Princeton #1S2005
At a soil climate station/29.8 mi away/615 ft/176 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Madisonville 1.6 NEKY-HP-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/466 ft/27 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonvilleMADK2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.5 mi away/477 ft/38 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.