KY-80 at mile 14.412_302_000.1
Beside a road/7.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 77° today.
Now. Maytown is 72° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (68%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Maytown, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Pikeville (KY), 14 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
0.67 in in the last 24 hours, 1.75 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 3 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Maytown, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Maytown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
KY-80 at mile 14.412_302_000.1
Beside a road/7.6 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Levisa Fork At Prestonsburg03209800
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/587 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
PikevillePBX
At an airfield/12.4 mi away/1,463 ft/778 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Eastern 1.5 WKY-FD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/704 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Prestonsburg 3WSWPELK2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/705 ft/20 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.4 mi from Maytown, Kentucky. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 11,000 ft; the ceiling is 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.7 F with a dew point of 72.0 F, 98 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 11,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Pikeville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Prestonsburg 3WSW (PELK2), 8.7 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.