Temperature
55 F at 4 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 46 F at its coolest, 8 AM.
- Now
- 55F
- 4 PM
- Highest
- 55F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 46F
- 8 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Taylor County Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 67° after 57° today.
Now. Taylor County Airport is 56° and mostly cloudy at 4 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:04 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 PM in Taylor County Airport, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Elizabethtown (KY), 38 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,004 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 50° / 230° | 10 mph head, on 05 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Taylor County (AAS), Taylor County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
55 F at 4 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 46 F at its coolest, 8 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 36 F, the air 47% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 4 PM to 83% at 11 PM Friday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the northeast at 4 PM; at its strongest 10 mph, 4 PM, with a gust of 25 mph at 12 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.48 inHg at 4 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.28 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,600 ft at 5 AM; a base was reported in 24 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
Taylor County: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Taylor County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/884 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-68 at mile 9.404_68_0094
Beside a road/13.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Campbellsville 2.1 NKY-TY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/847 ft/74 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/670 ft/251 ft below 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.