Beside a road/9.0 mi away/939 ft/409 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 66° today.
Now. Ripley is 69° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 53° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. 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 Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:54 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Ripley, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Cincinnati (OH), 45 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 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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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ripley, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ripley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/939 ft/409 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.4 mi away/941 ft/411 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AmeliaAMEO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.6 mi away/877 ft/347 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BataviaI69
At an airfield/31.1 mi away/828 ft/298 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Georgetown 2.9 SEOH-BR-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/887 ft/357 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Machester 5ENEMNCO1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.3 mi away/538 ft/8 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 31.1 mi from Ripley, Ohio. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:16 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
From the southwest (230 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
At 828 ft above sea level, 3 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.04 inHg and the temperature at 56.0 F.
The full report of Batavia, in 5 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.