Drakes Creek Near Alvaton03314000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/442 ft/182 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Plano is 74° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Light 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 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, 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 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Plano, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 48, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Bowling Green (KY), 7 miles off.
Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, 0.81 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Plano, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Plano, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Drakes Creek Near Alvaton03314000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/442 ft/182 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW2972CW2972
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/589 ft/35 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.1 mi away/548 ft/76 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
KY-101 at mile 7.803_101_007.8
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Bowling Green 21 NNE63849
At a climate reference station/27.8 mi away/790 ft/166 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Mammoth CaveS2079
At a soil climate station/29.7 mi away/800 ft/176 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Alvaton 3.3 WKY-WR-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/625 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bowling Green SnowBGGK2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.3 mi away/552 ft/72 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.1 mi from Plano, Kentucky. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
75.0 F with a dew point of 57.0 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up.
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Bowling Green, 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.