Temperature
72 F at 8 PM; 89 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 59 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 72F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 89F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 59F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field)
El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field), California
Medium airport in Imperial County, California74°
92°/59°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNW
Now. El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field) is 74° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 70° 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 93°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 79°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
44%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
74feels74
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
9259
23mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
9369
24mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8368
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
8561
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8962
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8563
24mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7959
11%
19mph
74°
92°59°
93°69°
83°68°
85°61°
89°62°
85°63°
79°59°
As of 10:00 PM in El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field), California.
Air quality
The air at El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field)
Index 37, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Imperial Valley (CA), 7 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good6.8 mi
- Ozone32Good22 ppb6.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)37Good6.8 mi
The days ahead
Highest 78, moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by coarse particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
- 53TodayOct 15
- 78FriOct 16
- 42SatOct 17
- 44SunOct 18
- 51MonOct 19
- 67TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field)
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field), the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- NJK
- ICAO
- KNJK
- IATA
- NJK
- Field elevation
- -42 ft
- Serves
- El Centro
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- NJK
- Wind now
- From 320° at 6 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 9,503 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 90° / 270° | 4 mph head, on 26 | 5 mph from the right |
| 12 / 30 | 6,825 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 135° / 315° | 6 mph head, on 30 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from El Centro NAF (NJK), El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field)'s own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 44 F, the air 37% saturated; the humidity ran from 15% at 2 PM to 60% at 4 AM.
- Dew point now
- 44F
- 8 PM
- Humidity now
- 37%
- Humidity, range
- 15 to 60%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the northwest at 8 PM; at its strongest 18 mph, 12 PM, with a gust of 25 mph at 12 PM.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 18mph
- 12 PM
- Highest gust
- 25mph
- 12 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.96 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.96inHg
- 8 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.03inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.08inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- 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
El Centro NAF: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field), 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/-56 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fish Creek Mtn RAWSFHCC1
A remote fire weather station/23.5 mi away/1,421 ft/1,463 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
ImperialIMPC1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/-61 ft/19 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 El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field)
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Seeleycommunity, 3 mi
- Imperialcity, 6 mi
- El Centrocity, 7 mi
- Hebercommunity, 10 mi
- Brawleycity, 13 mi
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- Holtvillecity, 17 mi
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- Calipatriacity, 23 mi
- Nilandcommunity, 30 mi
Airports near El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field)
- Imperial County AirportIPL, 6 mi
- Borrego Valley AirportL08, 48 mi
- Jacqueline Cochran Regional AirportTRM, 62 mi
- Ramona AirportRNM, 74 mi
- Gillespie FieldSEE, 75 mi
- Blythe AirportBLH, 78 mi
- Brown Field Municipal AirportSDM, 78 mi
- Palm Springs International AirportPSP, 84 mi