Pressure
29.92 inHg at 5 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.15 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.92inHg
- 5 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.15inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Capital City Airport, Kentucky
Small airport in Franklin County, Kentucky67°
63°/57°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 67°·Light breeze 8 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 63° today.
Now. Capital City Airport is 67° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 49° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:01 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
53Air quality
81%Humidity
47%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
67feels67
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
6357
62%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
5539
19%
13mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6232
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6636
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6937
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7139
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7341
clear day
67°
63°57°
55°39°
62°32°
66°36°
69°37°
71°39°
73°41°
As of 5:00 AM in Capital City Airport, Kentucky.
Air quality
The air at Capital City Airport
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Lexington (KY), 24 miles off.
53Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)53Moderate23.7 mi
- Ozone35Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Capital City Airport
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 1.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Last 3 days
- 1.50in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 2%
Visibility
How far you can see at Capital City Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- FFT
- ICAO
- KFFT
- IATA
- FFT
- Field elevation
- 806 ft
- Serves
- Frankfort
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- FFT
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,006 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 64° / 244° | - | - |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Capital City Airport/Frankfort (FFT), Capital City Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
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
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Capital City 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 now4 instruments
Capital City Airport/FrankfortFFT
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/778 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-127 at mile 8.805_127_0088
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
VersaillesVSLK2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.5 mi away/876 ft/70 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Versailles 3 NNW63838
At a climate reference station/11.1 mi away/891 ft/85 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Frankfort 2.8 WSWKY-FR-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/822 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ridgeview Estates - FrankfortRVEK2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.8 mi away/769 ft/37 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 Ridgeview Estates - Frankfort (RVEK2), 4.8 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 Capital City Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Frankfortcity, 2 mi
- Lawrenceburgcity, 10 mi
- Midwaycity, 12 mi
- Versaillescity, 13 mi
- Stamping Groundcity, 14 mi
- Pleasurevillecity, 16 mi
- Montereycity, 17 mi
- Shelbyvillecity, 18 mi
- Salvisacommunity, 18 mi
- Georgetowncity, 19 mi
- Eminencecity, 19 mi
- Gratzcity, 20 mi
Airports near Capital City Airport
- Blue Grass AirportLEX, 19 mi
- Georgetown-Scott County Regional Airport27K, 26 mi
- Samuels FieldBRY, 41 mi
- Bowman FieldLOU, 41 mi
- Lebanon Springfield Airport - George Hoerter Field6I2, 42 mi
- Stuart Powell FieldDVK, 42 mi
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International AirportSDF, 45 mi
- Gene Snyder AirportK62, 46 mi