Temperature
64 F at 2 AM; 85 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 85F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM (56%).
Now. Elizabethton Municipal Airport is 65° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 5 AM, under cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 63): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (93%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:56 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Elizabethton Municipal Airport, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 63, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Tri-Cities (TN), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 10 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 5,001 ft | 70 ft | Asphalt | 58° / 238° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Elizabethton (0A9), Elizabethton Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
64 F at 2 AM; 85 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 64 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 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 52% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 2 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 14 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 2 AM, 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 5 AM Thursday; 9 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 3,800 ft at 11 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 20 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
Elizabethton: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Elizabethton 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 now2 instruments
Elizabethton0A9
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,594 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Piney GrovePGVT1
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.7 mi away/2,635 ft/1,042 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Elizabethton 1.4 NETN-CT-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/1,520 ft/73 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElizabethtownELZT1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/1,692 ft/99 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Elizabethtown (ELZT1), 3.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.