Citizen station FW3268FW3268
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/870 ft/3 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Tipton, Indiana
City in Tipton County, Indiana* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 possible. * WHERE...Portions of central and east central Indiana. * WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
45°
55°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 9 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Tipton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 55° today.
Now. Tipton is 45° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 9 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 8 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 Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:57 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
82%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
45feels40
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5535
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6332
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6935
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7138
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7241
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7443
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7447
mostly clear day
45°
55°35°
63°32°
69°35°
71°38°
72°41°
74°43°
74°47°
As of 12:00 AM in Tipton, Indiana.
Air quality
The air at Tipton
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Kokomo (IN), 21 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone16Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Tipton
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 25%
Visibility
How far you can see at Tipton, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Tipton, IndianaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Tipton, 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
Rank943of 1,118
Cicero Creek At Arcadia03349510
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.9 mi away/813 ft/60 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US31@SR38IN043
Beside a road/14.0 mi away/951 ft/78 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
KokomoOKK
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/830 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tipton 0.2 SSEIN-TN-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/866 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TiptonTPTI3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/896 ft/23 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Kokomo, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.8 mi from Tipton, Indiana. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
45.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 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 wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Kokomo, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Tipton (TPTI3), 6.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 05:30. measured daily
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23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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