28-US23 @ Slm 6.5OH028
Beside a road/2.1 mi away/560 ft/164 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 68° today.
Now. Piketon is 69° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:50 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Piketon, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Ashland (KY), 45 miles off.
Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Piketon, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Piketon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
28-US23 @ Slm 6.5OH028
Beside a road/2.1 mi away/560 ft/164 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WaverlyEOP
At an airfield/7.8 mi away/659 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW8031GW8031
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.1 mi away/791 ft/67 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Chillicothe RainfallCHEO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.0 mi away/627 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Piketon Aec Pump StaPKTO1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/568 ft/156 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Waverly 4.2 NEOH-PK-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.1 mi away/676 ft/48 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.8 mi from Piketon, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 300 ft, overcast at 700 ft; the ceiling is 300 ft; visibility 2.5 mi.
68.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 300 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Waverly, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.