KentonI95
At an airfield/7.7 mi away/1,017 ft/38 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ridgeway until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ridgeway is 50° and overcast at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 47°. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:46 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Ridgeway, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Lima (OH), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 54, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 9 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ridgeway, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Ridgeway, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
KentonI95
At an airfield/7.7 mi away/1,017 ft/38 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/8.4 mi away/975 ft/80 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Scioto River at La Rue03217500
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.6 mi away/910 ft/145 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW0245FW0245
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/1,081 ft/26 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Molly Caren #1S2014
At a soil climate station/39.5 mi away/1,060 ft/5 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Victory 2.1 NOH-HD-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/1,004 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KentonKENO1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/965 ft/90 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.7 mi from Ridgeway, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 500 ft, broken at 2,100 ft, overcast at 4,800 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 2 mi.
50.0 F with a dew point of 48.2 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 500 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 8 mph, gusting 15 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Kenton, 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.