Temperature
78 F at 9 PM; 88 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 73 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 78F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 88F
- 1 PM
- Lowest
- 73F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 65° after 91° today.
Now. Campbell Army Airfield (Fort Campbell) is 73° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Saturday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Campbell Army Airfield (Fort Campbell), Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Clarksville-Montgomery County (TN), 8 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 41, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 10,926 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 44° / 224° | 6 mph head, on 23 | 1 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 unlit | 4,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 179° / 359° | 5 mph head, on 18 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Fort Campbell (AAF) (HOP), Campbell Army Airfield (Fort Campbell)'s own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
78 F at 9 PM; 88 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 73 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 59 F, the air 52% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 1 PM to 99% at 4 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the south southwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 12 mph, 1 PM, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.96 inHg at 9 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.06 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.1 miles at 7 AM, under a mile for 4 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 6 AM; a base was reported in 14 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 3 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Fort Campbell (AAF): every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Campbell Army Airfield (Fort Campbell), how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/571 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golden Pond RAWSLBLK2
A remote fire weather station/32.5 mi away/636 ft/63 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-68 at mile 8.203_68_008.3
Beside a road/33.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Princeton #1S2005
At a soil climate station/35.0 mi away/615 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Campbell 0.9 ENEKY-MM-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/560 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HerndonHRNK2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/548 ft/25 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Herndon (HRNK2), 7.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.