Temperature
90 F at 5 PM; 93 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 53 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 90F
- 5 PM
- Highest
- 93F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 53F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Chico Regional Airport
Chico Regional Airport, California
Small airport in Butte County, California73°
93°/57°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Light breeze 7 mph NNW
Now. Chico Regional Airport is 73° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 58° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 91°, and the coolest Monday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:34 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
12%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
73feels73
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
9357
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
9159
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
8657
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
8256
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6850
11%
Tue
Oct 20
6849
25%
Wed
Oct 21
7149
20%
73°
93°57°
91°59°
86°57°
82°56°
68°50°
68°49°
71°49°
As of 9:00 PM in Chico Regional Airport, California.
Air quality
The air at Chico Regional Airport
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Chico (CA), 3 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)25Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chico Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Chico Regional Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CIC
- ICAO
- KCIC
- IATA
- CIC
- Field elevation
- 240 ft
- Serves
- Chico
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CIC
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13L / 31R | 6,724 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 147° / 327° | - | - |
| 13R / 31L unlit | 3,000 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 147° / 327° | - | - |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Chico Municipal (CIC), Chico Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 28 F, the air 11% saturated; the humidity ran from 11% at 4 PM to 51% at 6 AM.
- Dew point now
- 28F
- 5 PM
- Humidity now
- 11%
- Humidity, range
- 11 to 51%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
18 mph from the west northwest at 5 PM; at its strongest 18 mph, 3 PM, with a gust of 23 mph at 4 PM.
- Now
- 18mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 18mph
- 3 PM
- Highest gust
- 23mph
- 4 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.07 inHg at 5 PM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.09 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.07inHg
- 5 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.03inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.09inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 2 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 2 AM
- 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
Chico Municipal: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Chico Regional 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/240 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cohasset RAWSCSTC1
A remote fire weather station/7.0 mi away/1,699 ft/1,459 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chico 2.9 WCA-BT-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/190 ft/50 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
On a college campus/7.5 mi away/186 ft/54 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near Chico Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Chicocity, 4 mi
- Nordcommunity, 5 mi
- Butte Creek Canyoncommunity, 9 mi
- Hamilton Citycommunity, 9 mi
- Cohassetcommunity, 10 mi
- Durhamcommunity, 11 mi
- Forest Ranchcommunity, 11 mi
- Magaliacommunity, 14 mi
- Paradisetown, 14 mi
- Vinacommunity, 14 mi
- Butte Valleycommunity, 15 mi
- Orlandcity, 18 mi
Airports near Chico Regional Airport
- Oroville Municipal AirportOVE, 25 mi
- Red Bluff Municipal AirportRBL, 32 mi
- Rogers FieldO05, 47 mi
- Yuba County AirportMYV, 51 mi
- Beale Air Force BaseBAB, 51 mi
- Redding Municipal AirportRDD, 54 mi
- Nevada County AirportGOO, 60 mi
- Lincoln Regional Karl Harder FieldLHM, 67 mi