Prentice Cooper State ForestPCFT1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.2 mi away/1,916 ft/310 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 75° today.
Now. Griffith Creek is 64° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light air from the west-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 72): 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 56°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Griffith Creek, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 72, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Chattanooga (TN), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 65, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Griffith Creek, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Griffith Creek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Prentice Cooper State ForestPCFT1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.2 mi away/1,916 ft/310 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0392GW0392
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/686 ft/1,540 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/25.6 mi away/689 ft/1,537 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Eastview FarmS2077
At a soil climate station/37.6 mi away/1,054 ft/1,172 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
WhitwellSEQT1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/1,167 ft/1,059 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Whitwell 4.4 WTN-MA-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/774 ft/1,452 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.6 mi from Griffith Creek, Tennessee. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.