Temperature
70 F at 5 AM; 73 F at its warmest, 3 AM, and 66 F at its coolest, 8 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 73F
- 3 AM
- Lowest
- 66F
- 8 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Ashland Regional Airport, Kentucky
Small airport in Greenup County, Kentucky69°
73°/63°
Clear·
Feels like 69°·Light breeze 4 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 73° today.
Now. Ashland Regional Airport is 69° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 52): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (48%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:51 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 day is 11 hours 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
52Air quality
73%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
69feels69
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7363
50%
Sat
Oct 17
5541
48%
Sun
Oct 18
6134
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6537
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6839
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7041
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7243
clear day
69°
73°63°
55°41°
61°34°
65°37°
68°39°
70°41°
72°43°
As of 6:00 AM in Ashland Regional Airport, Kentucky.
Air quality
The air at Ashland Regional Airport
Index 52, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Ashland (KY), 7 miles off.
52Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)52Moderate8.5 mi
- Ozone22Good27 ppb0.5 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ashland Regional Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.28 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.28in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Ashland Regional Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- DWU
- ICAO
- KDWU
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 546 ft
- Serves
- Worthington
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- DWU
- Wind now
- From 200° at 3 mph, read 16 Oct, 05:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 5,402 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 98° / 278° | 1 mph head, on 28 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Ashland (DWU), Ashland Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 61 F, the air 73% saturated; the humidity ran from 73% at 5 AM to 100% at 9 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 61F
- 5 AM
- Humidity now
- 73%
- Humidity, range
- 73 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
2 mph from the southwest at 6 AM; at its strongest 4 mph, 4 AM, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 2mph
- from the southwest
- Strongest
- 4mph
- 4 AM
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.91 inHg at 6 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.19 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.91inHg
- 6 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.00inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.19inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.1 miles at 11 PM Thursday, under a mile for 5 hours; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 0.1mi
- 11 PM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 5
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 9 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 8,500ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 200ft
- 9 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 24
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 9 AM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Wettest hour
- 0.01in
- 9 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Ashland: 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 Ashland 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 now2 instruments
AshlandDWU
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/542 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-23 at mile 16.509_23_016.5
Beside a road/9.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Wurtland 0.4 WNWKY-GP-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/547 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a dam/9.6 mi away/545 ft/1 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Kentucky
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Ashland Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Worthingtoncity, under 1 mi
- Racelandcity, 1 mi
- Wurtlandcity, 2 mi
- Flatwoodscity, 3 mi
- Russellcity, 4 mi
- Bellefontecity, 5 mi
- Greenupcity, 5 mi
- Westwoodcommunity, 6 mi
- Ironvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Ashlandcity, 8 mi
- Cannonsburgcommunity, 12 mi
- Catlettsburgcity, 12 mi
Airports near Ashland Regional Airport
- Morehead-Rowan County Clyde A. Thomas Regional AirportSYM, 52 mi
- Fleming Mason AirportFGX, 54 mi
- Big Sandy Regional AirportSJS, 56 mi
- Pike County Airport Hatcher FieldPBX, 69 mi
- Julian Carroll AirportJKL, 73 mi
- Mount Sterling Montgomery County AirportIOB, 76 mi
- Wendell H Ford AirportCPF, 86 mi
- Gene Snyder AirportK62, 90 mi