Prentice Cooper State ForestPCFT1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.3 mi away/1,916 ft/65 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 20 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 77° today.
Now. Lone Oak is 67° 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 74° by 11 AM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 3 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 Lone Oak, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 72, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Chattanooga (TN), 10 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 28 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lone Oak, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lone Oak, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Prentice Cooper State ForestPCFT1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.3 mi away/1,916 ft/65 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/877 ft/974 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/14.7 mi away/689 ft/1,162 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Signal Mountain 1.6 NETN-HL-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,956 ft/105 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WhitwellSEQT1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/1,167 ft/684 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.7 mi from Lone Oak, 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.