Citizen station FW2087FW2087
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/877 ft/27 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 11 PM (52%).
Now. Rarity Bay is 78° and partly cloudy at 12 PM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light breeze from the southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 5 AM, with some cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:07 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Rarity Bay, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Great Smoky Mtns. Natl. Park - TN (TN), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rarity Bay, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Rarity Bay, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW2087FW2087
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/877 ft/27 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MadisonvilleMNV
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/1,004 ft/100 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lenoir City Lookout TowerLCLT1
At a fire lookout or ranger station/15.1 mi away/1,211 ft/307 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Vonore 3.0 WNWTN-MR-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/915 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lenior City - Water PlantLENT1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.9 mi away/763 ft/141 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Rarity Bay, Tennessee. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,500 ft, broken at 8,000 ft; the ceiling is 6,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
77.0 F with a dew point of 68.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,500 ft.
At 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Madisonville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.