Now. Kennett Memorial Airport is 73° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the west at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 54° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Kennett Memorial Airport, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Dyersburg (TN), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 18° / 198° | 2 mph head, on 20 | 6 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 3,012 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 178° / 358° | 0 mph head, on 18 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Kennett (TKX), Kennett Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
76 F at 10 PM Thursday; 94 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 73 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 57 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 26% at 5 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the west southwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 17 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 28 mph at 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.97 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 8 miles at 9 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,900 ft at 9 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 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
Kennett: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Kennett Memorial 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 now3 instruments
KennettTKX
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/257 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
DexterS2048
At a soil climate station/38.7 mi away/296 ft/34 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Dexter ScanDEXM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/38.9 mi away/305 ft/43 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kennett 0.8 NMO-FSA-069
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/256 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HornersvilleHNVM7
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/243 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.