Beside a road/3.9 mi away/859 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Lawrence is 62° and overcast at 4 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 12 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 4 AM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:59 PM. 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Lawrence, Indiana.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Indianapolis (IN), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.66 in in the last 24 hours, 0.69 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lawrence, IndianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lawrence, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/3.9 mi away/859 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/856 ft/7 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6808GW6808
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/829 ft/20 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
White River At Broad Ripple03351060
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.3 mi away/710 ft/139 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Indianapolis 10.7 NEIN-MR-154
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/849 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Castleton 2SBMCI3
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/823 ft/26 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.9 mi from Lawrence, Indiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 900 ft, overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
61.7 F with a dew point of 61.7 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Castleton 2S (BMCI3), 3.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.