At an airfield/2.0 mi away/1,004 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mount Sterling, Kentucky
City in Montgomery County, Kentucky70°
67°/58°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 70°·Gentle breeze 8 mph SW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 67° today.
Now. Mount Sterling is 70° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 52): 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 54°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 day is 11 hours 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
52Air quality
78%Humidity
72%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
70feels70
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
6758
48%
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
5441
17%
Sun
Oct 18
6134
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6437
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6739
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6941
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7141
clear day
70°
67°58°
54°41°
61°34°
64°37°
67°39°
69°41°
71°41°
As of 4:00 AM in Mount Sterling, Kentucky.
Air quality
The air at Mount Sterling
Index 52, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Lexington (KY), 30 miles off.
52Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)52Moderate-
- Ozone36Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mount Sterling
0.30 in in the last 24 hours, 1.85 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.30in
- Last 3 days
- 1.85in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 16%
Visibility
How far you can see at Mount Sterling, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Sterling, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Sterling, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank-
KY-9000 at mile 1007_9000_010
Beside a road/8.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KE4PKTKE4PKT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/901 ft/104 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Red River At Clay City03283500
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.3 mi away/600 ft/405 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mount SterlingMTSK2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/988 ft/17 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mount Sterling 1.4 SWKY-MM-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,021 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mount Sterling (MTSK2), 0.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near Mount Sterling
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Camargocity, 5 mi
- Jeffersonvillecity, 9 mi
- Sharpsburgcity, 10 mi
- North Middletowncity, 11 mi
- Owingsvillecity, 11 mi
- Clay Citycity, 14 mi
- Winchestercity, 14 mi
- Stantoncity, 15 mi
- Red River Gorgefeature, 18 mi
- Carlislecity, 18 mi
- Salt Lickcity, 18 mi
- Frenchburgcity, 19 mi