Big Raccoon Creek Near Fincastle03340800
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/686 ft/137 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Russellville is 50° and overcast at 8 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:07 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Russellville, Indiana.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Terre Haute (IN), 34 miles off.
Highest moderate, Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.80 in in the last 24 hours, 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Russellville, IndianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Russellville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Big Raccoon Creek Near Fincastle03340800
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/686 ft/137 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/799 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KD9BKHKD9BKH
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/815 ft/8 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CloverdaleIN011
Beside a road/24.4 mi away/832 ft/9 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Russellville 0.3 NNWIN-PM-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/823 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Crawfordsville 5SCWVI3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/797 ft/26 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Russellville, Indiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.5 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,000 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Crawfordsville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Crawfordsville 5S (CWVI3), 8.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:00. 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.