Temperature
59 F at 12 PM; 72 F at its warmest, 6 AM, and 59 F at its coolest, 12 PM.
- Now
- 59F
- 12 PM
- Highest
- 72F
- 6 AM
- Lowest
- 59F
- 12 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 67° today.
Now. Pike County Airport is 60° and overcast at 12 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 71°, 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 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:49 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Pike County Airport, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Ashland (KY), 50 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 4,899 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 62° / 242° | 5 mph head, on 25 | 5 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Waverly (EOP), Pike County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
59 F at 12 PM; 72 F at its warmest, 6 AM, and 59 F at its coolest, 12 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 59 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 78% at 6 AM to 100% at 6 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the west northwest at 12 PM; at its strongest 11 mph, 10 AM, with a gust of 23 mph at 10 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.95 inHg at 12 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.11 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 12 AM; 4 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 1 AM; a base was reported in 22 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
Waverly: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Pike County 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
WaverlyEOP
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/659 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
28-US23 @ Slm 6.5OH028
Beside a road/9.9 mi away/560 ft/100 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Chillicothe RainfallCHEO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.4 mi away/627 ft/33 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Waverly 4.2 NEOH-PK-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/676 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WaverlyWAVO1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/558 ft/102 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Waverly (WAVO1), 4.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.