Temperature
47 F at 5 AM; 74 F at its warmest, 10 AM Friday, and 46 F at its coolest, 1 AM.
- Now
- 47F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 74F
- 10 AM Friday
- Lowest
- 46F
- 1 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 55° today.
Now. Crossville Memorial Airport Whitson Field is 46° and mostly cloudy at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 8 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:07 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Crossville Memorial Airport Whitson Field, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Cookeville (TN), 28 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Mon 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 5,423 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 74° / 254° | 1 mph head, on 08 | 8 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Crossville Memorial (CSV), Crossville Memorial Airport Whitson Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 5 AM; 74 F at its warmest, 10 AM Friday, and 46 F at its coolest, 1 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 43 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 60% at 10 AM Friday to 91% at 3 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the north at 6 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 11 AM Friday, with a gust of 31 mph at 6 PM Friday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.27 inHg at 6 AM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.21 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 3 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 2 PM Friday; 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
Crossville Memorial: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Crossville Memorial Airport Whitson Field, 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,880 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Crossville 7 NW63855
At a climate reference station/4.8 mi away/1,913 ft/32 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
RAWS Site Crossville Area OfficeCSST1
A remote fire weather station/5.4 mi away/1,768 ft/113 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Crossville 1.5 WNWTN-CM-55
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/1,790 ft/91 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Experiment StationCRST1
On a farm or research station/5.1 mi away/1,909 ft/28 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.