Temperature
73 F at 8 PM; 79 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 55 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 73F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 79F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 55F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Twentynine Palms Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field
Now. Twentynine Palms Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field is 71° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 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 82°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Twentynine Palms Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field, California.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Joshua Tree National Park (CA), 21 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 8,015 ft | 150 ft | PSP | 113° / 293° | 2 mph head, on 28 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Twentynine Palms (NXP), Twentynine Palms Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 8 PM; 79 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 55 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 37 F, the air 27% saturated; the humidity ran from 20% at 4 PM to 49% at 4 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the north at 8 PM; at its strongest 22 mph, 11 AM, with a gust of 38 mph at 11 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.19 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; the same as 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
Twentynine Palms: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Twentynine Palms Strategic Expeditionary Landing 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,054 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Yucca Valley RAWSUCCC1
A remote fire weather station/18.5 mi away/3,260 ft/1,209 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-10 - Jefferson Avenue Eastbound OfframpCF018
Beside a road/38.4 mi away/59 ft/1,992 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Joshua Tree 6.5 NNWCA-SR-99
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/3,181 ft/1,130 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Joshua TreeJSTC1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/2,562 ft/511 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Joshua Tree (JSTC1), 12.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.