Red River At Clay City03283500
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/600 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Stanton, Kentucky
City in Powell County, Kentucky* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 32 degrees will result in widespread frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of east central, northeast, south central, and southeast Kentucky. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
45°
56°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Stanton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 56° today.
Now. Stanton is 45° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:56 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
84%Humidity
94%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
45feels40
now, overcast
Today
Oct 17
5642
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
6435
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6738
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6840
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7041
clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7142
clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7144
clear day
45°
56°42°
64°35°
67°38°
68°40°
70°41°
71°42°
71°44°
As of 7:00 AM in Stanton, Kentucky.
Air quality
The air at Stanton
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Lexington (KY), 37 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Stanton
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 2.30 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 2.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 3%
Visibility
How far you can see at Stanton, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Stanton, KentuckyReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Stanton, 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
Rank231of 697
KY-9000 at mile 3310_9000_33
Beside a road/9.5 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/989 ft/322 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/1,004 ft/337 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stanton 0.4 WNWKY-PW-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/659 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Stanton 2WSTAK2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/741 ft/74 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Stanton 2W (STAK2), 2.2 miles from here, read 17 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near Stanton
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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