Kentucky River At Lock 7 At Highbridge03286500
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.3 mi away/503 ft/373 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Old Fort Harrod State Park, Kentucky
State Park in Mercer County, Kentucky* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of south central Indiana and east central, north central, northwest, and south central Kentucky. * WHEN...From 1 AM EDT /midnight CDT/ to 9 AM EDT /8 AM CDT/ Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
51°
56°/40°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNE
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Old Fort Harrod State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 65° after 56° today.
Now. Old Fort Harrod State Park is 51° and mostly cloudy at 12 PM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:01 AM after midnight. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
4UV Moderate
20Air quality
63%Humidity
86%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
51feels51
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 17
5640
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
6533
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6937
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6939
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7139
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7141
clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7042
clear day
51°
56°40°
65°33°
69°37°
69°39°
71°39°
71°41°
70°42°
As of 12:00 PM in Old Fort Harrod State Park, Kentucky.
Air quality
The air at Old Fort Harrod State Park
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Lexington (KY), 28 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good17 mi
- Ozone20Good18 ppb17 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 8 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Old Fort Harrod State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.94in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Old Fort Harrod State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 831,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 876 ft
- County
- Mercer County
- State
- Kentucky
- Latitude
- 37.7629° N
- Longitude
- 84.8512° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Old Fort Harrod State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station GW6936GW6936
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/830 ft/46 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
DanvilleDVK
At an airfield/13.5 mi away/1,022 ft/146 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-127 at mile 207_127_002
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Versailles 3 NNW63838
At a climate reference station/23.4 mi away/891 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Harrodsburg 4.1 NKY-ME-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/920 ft/44 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a dam/7.8 mi away/571 ft/305 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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