Now. Sturgis Municipal Airport is 72° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:13 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Sturgis Municipal Airport, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Evansville (IN), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.68 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 5,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 183° / 3° | 3 mph head, on 18 | 4 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Sturgis (TWT), Sturgis Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
74 F at 10 PM Thursday; 85 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 71 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 72% saturated; the humidity ran from 65% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
3 mph from the southwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 12 mph, 3 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.94 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.11 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 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 Thursday; a base was reported in 13 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.10 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Sturgis: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Sturgis Municipal 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
SturgisTWT
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/364 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-69 at mile 116.502_69_116
Beside a road/28.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Princeton #1 ScanPTNK2
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.1 mi away/615 ft/243 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Princeton #1S2005
At a soil climate station/31.1 mi away/615 ft/243 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Sturgis 5.4 ENEKY-UN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/371 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ProvidencePDNK2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.1 mi away/410 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.