Cumberland River At Barbourville03403500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/942 ft/86 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 77° today.
Now. Artemus is 67° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the south-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (65%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:01 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Artemus, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Speedwell (TN), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Artemus, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Artemus, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Cumberland River At Barbourville03403500
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/942 ft/86 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-25 at mile 1211_25_0012
Beside a road/10.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/1,155 ft/127 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW7412CW7412
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.2 mi away/1,225 ft/197 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WaterplantBBVK2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/981 ft/47 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Barbourville 0.4 NKY-KX-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/984 ft/44 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.7 mi from Artemus, Kentucky. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 100 ft; the ceiling is 100 ft; visibility 1/4 mi.
63.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 100 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Middlesboro-Bell, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Waterplant (BBVK2), 3.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.