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
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Blythe Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 81° after 94° today.
Now. Blythe Airport is 79° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 70° by 6 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 86°, and the coolest Thursday, near 76°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 day is 11 hours 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Blythe Airport, California.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Blythe (CA), 8 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 5 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 6,543 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 12 mph head, on 08 | 7 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 | 5,800 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 7 mph head, on 35 | 12 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Blythe Airport (BLH), Blythe Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
80 F at 10 PM; 93 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 73 F at its coolest, 1 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 38 F, the air 22% saturated; the humidity ran from 16% at 3 PM to 33% at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
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.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.10 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 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
Blythe Airport: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
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
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
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Snow on the ground
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.