Benton 4 (Be 4)402851087213501
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/709 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Pence is 64° and light rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:03 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Pence, Indiana.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (IN), 35 miles off.
Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pence, IndianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Pence, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Benton 4 (Be 4)402851087213501
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/709 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CovingtonIN041
Beside a road/17.1 mi away/560 ft/133 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LafayetteLAF
At an airfield/30.7 mi away/597 ft/96 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW7323GW7323
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.0 mi away/539 ft/154 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
PencePNCI3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/705 ft/12 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Williamsport 7.9 NNWIN-WR-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/714 ft/21 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.7 mi from Pence, Indiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:02 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 800 ft, broken at 1,400 ft, overcast at 3,700 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 4 mi.
64.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 800 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Lafayette, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.