Harpeth River At Franklin03432350
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/605 ft/258 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Thompson's Station is 64° and mostly clear at 8 AM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 64): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 AM in Thompson's Station, Tennessee.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Nashville (TN), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 53, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Thompson's Station, TennesseeReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Thompson's Station, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Harpeth River At Franklin03432350
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/605 ft/258 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station W4BJB-13W4BJB-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.2 mi away/740 ft/123 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/21.3 mi away/712 ft/151 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Thompson Station 3.2ENETN-WL-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/761 ft/102 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/630 ft/233 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.3 mi from Thompson's Station, Tennessee. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.6 F with a dew point of 60.8 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
From the southwest (230 degrees) at 7 mph, gusting 13 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
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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.