I-71 at mile 42.506_71_0043
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Carrollton is 69° and mostly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Carrollton, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 49, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Northern Kentucky (KY), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Carrollton, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Carrollton, 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
I-71 at mile 42.506_71_0043
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Kentucky River At Lock 3 At Gest03290080
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.9 mi away/445 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5790FW5790
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.3 mi away/788 ft/303 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cincinnati / N Kentucky IntlCVG
At an airfield/37.0 mi away/876 ft/391 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Carrollton 0.7 WKY-CR-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/484 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WarsawMKLK2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/436 ft/49 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 37.0 mi from Carrollton, Kentucky. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,500 ft, overcast at 9,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,500 ft.
From the southwest (230 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
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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.