Temperature
74 F at 9 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 72 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 74F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 92F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 72F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 69° after 92° today.
Now. Nashville International Airport is 75° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 66° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, 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-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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Nashville International Airport, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 50, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Nashville (TN), 3 miles off.
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 46, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02C / 20C | 8,001 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 18° / 198° | 5 mph head, on 20C | 3 mph from the left |
| 02L / 20R | 7,704 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 18° / 198° | 5 mph head, on 20R | 3 mph from the left |
| 02R / 20L | 8,001 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 18° / 198° | 5 mph head, on 20L | 3 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 11,030 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 133° / 313° | 5 mph head, on 13 | 4 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Nashville Metro (BNA), Nashville International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
74 F at 9 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 72 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 56 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 26% at 3 PM to 84% at 3 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the south at 10 PM; at its strongest 9 mph, 9 AM, with a gust of 22 mph at 5 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.02 inHg at 10 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 9 miles at 8 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,500 ft at 11 PM Wednesday; a base was reported in 23 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
Nashville Metro: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Nashville International Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.7 mi away/591 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
RAWS Site BurnsBURT1
A remote fire weather station/34.0 mi away/853 ft/254 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Berry Field/Percy Priest Lk 1WBFDT1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/584 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Nashville 5.3 SETN-DV-222
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/528 ft/71 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Berry Field/Percy Priest Lk 1W (BFDT1), 1.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.