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French Valley Airport, California

Small airport in Riverside County, California

Air quality

The air at French Valley Airport

Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Temecula Vly (CA), 6 miles off.

31Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good3.4 mi
  • Ozone31Good33 ppb3.4 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)18Good3.4 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.9 ppb13.7 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Smoke near the ground peaks at index 175, unhealthy, Sat 8 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at French Valley Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. 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 French Valley Airport, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 11 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 9 PM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
F70
ICAO
-
IATA
RBK
Field elevation
1,350 ft
Serves
Murrieta
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
F70
Wind now
Calm, read 16 Oct, 03:35

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
18 / 366,000 ft75 ftAsphalt195° / 15°CalmCalm
18362,000 ftN
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

Measured here

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

Every hour from Murrieta (F70), French Valley Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

63 F at 3 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 53 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.

Now
63F
3 AM
Highest
87F
2 PM Thursday
Lowest
53F
7 AM Thursday
Temperature and Dew point at Murrieta, temperature from 53.0 to 86.9, the latest 62.6; dew point from 31.5 to 45.2, the latest 43.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF204060801006 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMFREEZINGTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 43 F, the air 49% saturated; the humidity ran from 14% at 3 PM Thursday to 71% at 6 AM Thursday.

Dew point now
43F
3 AM
Humidity now
49%
Humidity, range
14 to 71%
Relative humidity at Murrieta, relative humidity from 14 to 71, the latest 49, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%0204060806 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

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

Wind

2 mph from the west southwest at 3 AM; at its strongest 15 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 22 mph at 4 PM Thursday.

Now
2mph
from the west southwest
Strongest
15mph
4 PM Thursday
Highest gust
22mph
4 PM Thursday
Wind and Gust at Murrieta, wind from 0 to 15, the latest 2; gust from 17 to 22, the latest 22, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph01020306 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Murrieta, wind direction from 10 to 350, the latest 250, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°0901802703606 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

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

Pressure

30.02 inHg at 3 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.06 inHg lower than a day before.

Now
30.02inHg
3 AM
3 hours
+0.00inHg
steady
24 hours
-0.06inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Murrieta, pressure, altimeter from 29.97 to 30.10, the latest 30.02, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg29.9530.0030.0530.106 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

Down to 9 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
9mi
7 AM Thursday
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at Murrieta, visibility from 9.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.5106 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

Murrieta: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest French Valley 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 now4 instruments

MurrietaF70

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,343 ft/7 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Lake Skinner RAWSLXSC1

A remote fire weather station/3.7 mi away/1,660 ft/310 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Fallbrook 5 NE53151

At a climate reference station/10.6 mi away/1,140 ft/210 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Winchester 6.5 SCA-RV-50

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/1,422 ft/72 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

ElsinoreEORC1

At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/1,286 ft/64 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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