Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Prescott Regional Airport - Ernest A. Love Field until 6 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Prescott Regional Airport - Ernest A. Love Field is 54° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 5 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 69°, and the coolest Thursday, near 59°. Rain is likely Wednesday (53%) and Thursday (55%). Rain is possible tomorrow (30%), Sunday (30%), Monday (40%) and Tuesday (47%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Prescott Regional Airport - Ernest A. Love Field, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Prescott (AZ), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03L / 21R | 4,395 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 39° / 219° | Calm | Calm |
| 03R / 21L | 7,619 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 42° / 222° | Calm | Calm |
| 12 / 30 | 4,408 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Prescott/Love Fld (PRC), Prescott Regional Airport - Ernest A. Love Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
53 F at 8 PM Thursday; 67 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 39 F, the air 59% saturated; the humidity ran from 32% at 1 PM Thursday to 89% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the north northeast at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 11 AM Thursday, with a gust of 33 mph at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.28 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Prescott/Love Fld: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Prescott Regional Airport - Ernest A. Love Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/5,043 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Iron Springs RAWSQISA3
A remote fire weather station/6.6 mi away/5,384 ft/339 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-17 @ 277.9: Oxtail DrawAZT22
Beside a road/26.1 mi away/4,446 ft/599 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Prescott 7.3 NNEAZ-YV-163
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/5,016 ft/29 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PrescottPSTA3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/5,522 ft/477 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Prescott (PSTA3), 6.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 05:30. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.