Temperature
59 F at 8 PM; 84 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 59 F at its coolest, 8 PM.
- Now
- 59F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 84F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 59F
- 8 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 23 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 82° today.
Now. McMinn County Airport is 58° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 3 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:09 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in McMinn County Airport, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 4, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Athens (TN), 3 miles off.
Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 2 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 6,450 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 19° / 199° | 5 mph head, on 02 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Athens (MMI), McMinn County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
59 F at 8 PM; 84 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 59 F at its coolest, 8 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 48 F, the air 67% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 2 PM to 100% at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
11 mph from the north northwest at 8 PM; at its strongest 16 mph, 6 PM, with a gust of 26 mph at 4 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.15 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 9 AM, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 8 AM; a base was reported in 19 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
Athens: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest McMinn 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 now2 instruments
AthensMMI
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/804 ft/71 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Delano 2SW RAWSDLOT1
A remote fire weather station/10.4 mi away/778 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Englewood 0.5 ETN-MM-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/843 ft/32 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AthensAHNT1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/938 ft/63 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.