I-71 at mile 5706_71_0057
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sanders until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sanders is 53° and overcast at 6 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 6 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
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 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:59 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 PM in Sanders, Kentucky.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Northern Kentucky (KY), 27 miles off.
Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sanders, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sanders, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-71 at mile 5706_71_0057
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Kentucky River At Lock 3 At Gest03290080
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.8 mi away/445 ft/45 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW3869GW3869
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.2 mi away/816 ft/326 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
FalmouthK62
At an airfield/30.0 mi away/892 ft/402 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sanders 4.2 WNWKY-CR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/863 ft/373 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glencoe 2NWGLEK2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/659 ft/169 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.0 mi from Sanders, Kentucky. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Falmouth, 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.