Temperature
66 F at 5 PM; 69 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 52 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 66F
- 5 PM
- Highest
- 69F
- 1 PM
- Lowest
- 52F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Payson Airport, Arizona
Small airport in Gila County, Arizona65°
72°/51°
Clear·
Feels like 65°·Gentle breeze 8 mph SE
Now. Payson Airport is 65° and clear at 6 PM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 80): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 65°, and the coolest Thursday, near 57°. Rain or snow is likely Tuesday (57%), Wednesday (78%) and Thursday (77%). Rain is possible tomorrow (48%), Sunday (30%) and Monday (36%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:04 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
80Air quality
30%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 PM
65feels65
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7251
16mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6544
48%
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6346
30%
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6549
36%
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6350
57%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
6151
78%
Thu
Oct 22
5750
77%
UV 6
65°
72°51°
65°44°
63°46°
65°49°
63°50°
61°51°
57°50°
As of 6:00 PM in Payson Airport, Arizona.
Air quality
The air at Payson Airport
Index 80, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, McDowell (AZ), 42 miles off.
80Moderate
- Ozone40Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)80Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 11 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Payson Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Payson Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 11 AM, lowest 4 miles Sun 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- PAN
- ICAO
- KPAN
- IATA
- PJB
- Field elevation
- 5,157 ft
- Serves
- Payson
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- PAN
- Wind now
- From 150° at 9 mph, read 16 Oct, 17:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 5,504 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 72° / 252° | 2 mph head, on 06 | 9 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Payson (PAN), Payson Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 34 F, the air 30% saturated; the humidity ran from 25% at 1 PM to 58% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 34F
- 5 PM
- Humidity now
- 30%
- Humidity, range
- 25 to 58%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
9 mph from the south southeast at 5 PM; at its strongest 22 mph, 7 PM Thursday, with a gust of 32 mph at 7 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 9mph
- from the south southeast
- Strongest
- 22mph
- 7 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 32mph
- 7 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.37 inHg at 5 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.14 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.37inHg
- 5 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.14inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Payson: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Payson 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 now3 instruments
PaysonPAN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/5,157 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pine RAWSQPNA3
A remote fire weather station/10.4 mi away/5,433 ft/276 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SR-87 @ Clints WellAZT17
Beside a road/20.6 mi away/6,912 ft/1,755 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Payson 1.6 NWAZ-GL-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/4,956 ft/201 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PaysonPYSA3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/4,888 ft/269 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Arizona
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Payson Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Paysontown, 1 mi
- East Verde Estatescommunity, 3 mi
- Mesa del Caballocommunity, 3 mi
- Flowing Springscommunity, 4 mi
- Star Valleytown, 5 mi
- Freedom Acrescommunity, 5 mi
- Oxbow Estatescommunity, 5 mi
- Round Valleycommunity, 5 mi
- Beaver Valleycommunity, 6 mi
- Geronimo Estatescommunity, 8 mi
- Whispering Pinescommunity, 9 mi
- Washington Parkcommunity, 11 mi
Airports near Payson Airport
- Sedona AirportSEZ, 48 mi
- Cottonwood AirportP52, 51 mi
- Scottsdale AirportSDL, 55 mi
- Phoenix Deer Valley AirportDVT, 58 mi
- Falcon FieldFFZ, 59 mi
- Winslow Lindbergh Regional AirportINW, 63 mi
- Flagstaff Pulliam AirportFLG, 64 mi
- Prescott Regional Airport - Ernest A. Love FieldPRC, 67 mi