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Blythe Airport, California

Medium airport in Riverside County, California

Air quality

The air at Blythe Airport

Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Blythe (CA), 8 miles off.

29Good
  • Ozone29Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 37, good.

Smoke, the next 43 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 5 PM.

SatSun

Precipitation

What has fallen at Blythe Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 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 Blythe Airport, the next 43 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 PM.

SatSun

Airfield

Code
BLH
ICAO
KBLH
IATA
BLH
Field elevation
399 ft
Serves
Blythe
Kind
Medium airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
BLH
Wind now
From 60° at 14 mph, read 16 Oct, 22:52

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
08 / 266,543 ft150 ftAsphalt90° / 270°12 mph head, on 087 mph from the left
17 / 355,800 ft100 ftAsphalt180° / 0°7 mph head, on 3512 mph from the right
082617352,500 ftN60° 14 mph
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Blythe Airport (BLH), Blythe Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

80 F at 10 PM; 93 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 73 F at its coolest, 1 AM.

Now
80F
10 PM
Highest
93F
2 PM
Lowest
73F
1 AM
Temperature and Dew point at Blythe Airport, temperature from 73.0 to 93.0, the latest 80.0; dew point from 38.0 to 44.0, the latest 38.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF20406080100Oct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMFREEZINGTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 38 F, the air 22% saturated; the humidity ran from 16% at 3 PM to 33% at 1 AM.

Dew point now
38F
10 PM
Humidity now
22%
Humidity, range
16 to 33%
Relative humidity at Blythe Airport, relative humidity from 16 to 33, the latest 22, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%1520253035Oct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

12 mph from the east northeast at 10 PM; at its strongest 22 mph, 10 AM, with a gust of 37 mph at 12 PM.

Now
12mph
from the east northeast
Strongest
22mph
10 AM
Highest gust
37mph
12 PM
Wind and Gust at Blythe Airport, wind from 5 to 22, the latest 12; gust from 21 to 37, the latest 24, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph010203040Oct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Blythe Airport, wind direction from 10 to 360, the latest 60, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°090180270360Oct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.10 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.10inHg
10 PM
3 hours
+0.04inHg
rising
24 hours
+0.10inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Blythe Airport, pressure, altimeter from 30.00 to 30.11, the latest 30.10, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0030.0530.1030.15Oct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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
Visibility at Blythe Airport, visibility from 10.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.510Oct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

Blythe Airport: 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 Blythe 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

Blythe AirportBLH

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/397 ft/2 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Ford Dry Lake ScanRDLC1

At a river or reservoir gauge/22.0 mi away/394 ft/5 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Ford Dry LakeS2184

At a soil climate station/22.0 mi away/394 ft/5 ft below here

temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture

measured daily2 instruments

BlytheBLYC1

At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/272 ft/127 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Blythe 0.4 NCA-RV-82

In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/278 ft/121 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

-

Snow on the ground

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