Temperature
73 F at 8 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 69 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 73F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 92F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 69F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Smyrna Airport, Tennessee
Medium airport in Rutherford County, Tennessee74°
92°/68°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 74°·Light breeze 5 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 92° today.
Now. Smyrna Airport is 74° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 65° 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 61°. 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 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
48Air quality
63%Humidity
20%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
74feels74
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
9268
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
7063
18%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
6145
14mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6838
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7040
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7342
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7644
overcast
74°
92°68°
70°63°
61°45°
68°38°
70°40°
73°42°
76°44°
As of 9:00 PM in Smyrna Airport, Tennessee.
Air quality
The air at Smyrna Airport
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Nashville (TN), 13 miles off.
48Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)48Good16.8 mi
- Ozone43Good27 ppb13.5 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good16.8 mi
The days ahead
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 46, good.
GoodModerate
- 46YesterdayOct 14
- 51TodayOct 15
- 46FriOct 16
- 42SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Smyrna Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Smyrna Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MQY
- ICAO
- KMQY
- IATA
- MQY
- Field elevation
- 543 ft
- Serves
- Smyrna
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MQY
- Wind now
- From 200° at 3 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 5,546 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 4° / 184° | 3 mph head, on 19 | 1 mph from the right |
| 14 / 32 | 8,038 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 139° / 319° | 1 mph head, on 14 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Smyrna (MQY), Smyrna Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 60 F, the air 64% saturated; the humidity ran from 31% at 3 PM to 100% at 2 AM.
- Dew point now
- 60F
- 8 PM
- Humidity now
- 64%
- Humidity, range
- 31 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
4 mph from the south at 9 PM; at its strongest 10 mph, 2 PM, with a gust of 17 mph at 2 PM.
- Now
- 4mph
- from the south
- Strongest
- 10mph
- 2 PM
- Highest gust
- 17mph
- 2 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.02 inHg at 9 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.02inHg
- 9 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.03inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,800 ft at 11 PM Wednesday; a base was reported in 20 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 12,000ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 4,800ft
- 11 PM Wednesday
- Hours with a base reported
- 20
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Smyrna: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Smyrna 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 now1 instrument
SmyrnaMQY
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/545 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Smyrna 2.4 NTN-RD-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/512 ft/31 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Gladeville 3WGVLT1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/610 ft/67 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Tennessee
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Smyrna Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- La Vergnecity, 2 mi
- Smyrnatown, 3 mi
- Rural Hillcommunity, 7 mi
- Walterhillcommunity, 9 mi
- Gladevillecommunity, 9 mi
- Nolensvilletown, 9 mi
- Mount Julietcity, 13 mi
- Murfreesborocity, 13 mi
- Brentwoodcity, 14 mi
- Oak Hillcity, 15 mi
- Green Hillcommunity, 16 mi
- Rockvalecommunity, 16 mi
Airports near Smyrna Airport
- Nashville International AirportBNA, 12 mi
- City of Murfreesboro AirportMBT, 12 mi
- Lebanon Municipal AirportM54, 17 mi
- John C Tune AirportJWN, 24 mi
- Music City Executive AirportXNX, 26 mi
- Bomar Field / Shelbyville Municipal AirportSYI, 31 mi
- Ellington AirportLUG, 38 mi
- Portland Municipal Airport1M5, 40 mi