Airports/California/Imperial County Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 82° after 93° today.
Now. Imperial County Airport is 74° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 92° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 72° 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 88°, and the coolest Thursday, near 78°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Tuesday, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Imperial County Airport, California.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Imperial Valley (CA), 3 miles off.
Highest 78, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in 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.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 4,501 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 3 mph head, on 26 | 8 mph from the right |
| 14 / 32 | 5,308 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 152° / 332° | 9 mph head, on 32 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Imperial (IPL), Imperial County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
69 F at 8 PM Thursday; 89 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 59 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 48 F, the air 47% saturated; the humidity ran from 14% at 3 PM Thursday to 62% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
4 mph from the northwest at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 17 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 30 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.93 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower 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
Imperial: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Imperial County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
ImperialIPL
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/-49 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Roadrunner RAWSRRNC1
A remote fire weather station/24.0 mi away/-246 ft/192 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
ImperialIMPC1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/-61 ft/7 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.