US-68 at mile 8.203_68_008.3
Beside a road/11.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Allensville is 62° and overcast at 7 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Allensville, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Clarksville-Montgomery County (TN), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 42, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Allensville, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Allensville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
US-68 at mile 8.203_68_008.3
Beside a road/11.9 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW0636EW0636
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.7 mi away/621 ft/31 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
S Fk Little River At HWY 68-80 Nr Hopkinsville03437480
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.3 mi away/551 ft/39 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HopkinsvilleHVC
At an airfield/23.6 mi away/535 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Olmsted 1.2 NNEKY-LG-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/582 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElktonELTK2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/640 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.6 mi from Allensville, Kentucky. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.8 F with a dew point of 55.4 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Hopkinsville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.