Ohio River At Paducah03611000
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.7 mi away/285 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 27 degrees cooler: a high of 61° after 88° today.
Now. Fort Massac State Park is 71° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 52° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest Saturday, near 60°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% 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 day is 11 hours 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Fort Massac State Park, Illinois.
Air quality
Index 45, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Massac State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Ohio River At Paducah03611000
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.7 mi away/285 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6292EW6292
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/340 ft/level with here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CairoCIR
At an airfield/28.3 mi away/321 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
In a park or preserve/0.2 mi away/335 ft/5 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Metropolis 2.1 ENEIL-MC-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/396 ft/56 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.