Temperature
66 F at 2 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 66 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 66F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 90F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 66F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 61° after 73° today.
Now. Bomar Field / Shelbyville Municipal Airport is 67° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 10 AM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 57): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Bomar Field / Shelbyville Municipal Airport, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 57, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Nashville (TN), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 53, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 44 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 5,504 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 179° / 359° | 7 mph head, on 18 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Shelbyville (SYI), Bomar Field / Shelbyville Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
66 F at 2 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 66 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 61 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 30% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the south at 2 AM; at its strongest 12 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 20 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.03 inHg at 2 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 6,500 ft at 5 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 7 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
Shelbyville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Bomar Field / Shelbyville 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 now3 instruments
ShelbyvilleSYI
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/797 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
RAWS Site Lewisburg TowerLSBT1
A remote fire weather station/22.0 mi away/1,207 ft/406 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Eastview FarmS2077
At a soil climate station/32.4 mi away/1,054 ft/253 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Shelbyville Muni. AirportSMAT1
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/801 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bell Buckle 3.3 WSWTN-BF-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/827 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.