South Fork Licking River at Kirkersville03144816
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/912 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 66° today.
Now. Kirkersville is 70° and mostly clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 52° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (49%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Kirkersville, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.21 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 9 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Kirkersville, 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
South Fork Licking River at Kirkersville03144816
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/912 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9431FW9431
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/1,002 ft/76 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
NewarkVTA
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/879 ft/47 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
111-I70 MM 114OH101
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/863 ft/63 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Kirkersville 3NKIKO1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.7 mi away/1,063 ft/137 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Kirkersville 3.3 NOH-LC-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/1,075 ft/149 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.5 mi from Kirkersville, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
72.0 F with a dew point of 62.0 F, 71 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the south southwest (210 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Newark, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Kirkersville 3N (KIKO1), 2.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.