Temperature
68 F at 8 PM; 81 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 49 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 68F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 81F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 49F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Mojave Air & Space Port
Mojave Air & Space Port, California
Medium airport in Kern County, California* WHAT...Northeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. * WHERE...Indian Wells Valley, Mojave Desert, and Mojave Desert Slopes. * WHEN...Until 10 PM PDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highways impacted include US Highway 395, and State Routes 14, 58, and 178.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
69°
84°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 69°·Gentle breeze 8 mph NNE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mojave Air & Space Port until 10 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mojave Air & Space Port is 69° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 62° 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 81°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 64°. Rain is possible Tuesday (35%) and Wednesday (44%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 34 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:36 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
38Air quality
19%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
69feels69
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
8453
26mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
8162
34mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7961
22mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7956
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8057
18mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6854
35%
17mph
Wed
Oct 21
6448
44%
69°
84°53°
81°62°
79°61°
79°56°
80°57°
68°54°
64°48°
As of 8:00 PM in Mojave Air & Space Port, California.
Air quality
The air at Mojave Air & Space Port
Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Mojave (CA), 1 mile off.
38Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
- Ozone38Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)13Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mojave Air & Space Port
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 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 Mojave Air & Space Port, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MHV
- ICAO
- KMHV
- IATA
- MHV
- Field elevation
- 2,801 ft
- Serves
- Mojave
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MHV
- Wind now
- From 40° at 7 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 4,747 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 50° / 230° | 7 mph head, on 04 | 1 mph from the left |
| 08 / 26 | 7,049 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 4 mph head, on 08 | 5 mph from the left |
| 12 / 30 | 12,503 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 136° / 316° | 1 mph head, on 30 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Mojave (MHV), Mojave Air & Space Port's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 25 F, the air 19% saturated; the humidity ran from 12% at 2 PM to 33% at 9 PM Wednesday.
- Dew point now
- 25F
- 8 PM
- Humidity now
- 19%
- Humidity, range
- 12 to 33%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
7 mph from the northeast at 8 PM; at its strongest 21 mph, 4 PM, with a gust of 31 mph at 2 PM.
- Now
- 7mph
- from the northeast
- Strongest
- 21mph
- 4 PM
- Highest gust
- 31mph
- 2 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.16 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.16inHg
- 8 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.03inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 7 miles at 6 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 7mi
- 6 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
Mojave: 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 Mojave Air & Space Port, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
MojaveMHV
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/2,785 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/15.7 mi away/4,071 ft/1,270 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Jaw Bone RAWSJWBC1
A remote fire weather station/17.1 mi away/4,537 ft/1,736 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mojave 8.4 SSWCA-KN-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/2,724 ft/77 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tehachapi 4 SETHPC1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/4,209 ft/1,408 ft above 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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