Now. Scammon Bay Airport is 39° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 34° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 10 PM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 36° all week. Rain is possible Sunday (37%). The windiest day is Tuesday, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and sets at 9:33 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 9 hours 57 minutes long, 6 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Scammon Bay Airport, Alaska.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 3,001 ft | 75 ft | Dirt | 114° / 294° | 16 mph head, on 29 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Scammon Bay (PACM), Scammon Bay Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
39 F at 7 PM Thursday; 39 F at its warmest, 7 PM Thursday, and 37 F at its coolest, 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 34 F, the air 81% saturated; the humidity ran from 79% at 12 PM Thursday to 93% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the northwest at 7 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 31 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.51 inHg at 7 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.20 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 9 miles at 2 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,000 ft at 9 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 19 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Scammon Bay: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 2 instruments nearest Scammon Bay Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Scammon BayPACM
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/13 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Chevak 0.4 ESEAK-WH-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.7 mi away/74 ft/60 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.