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Oroville Municipal Airport, California

Small airport in Butte County, California

Air quality

The air at Oroville Municipal Airport

Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Gridley (CA), 15 miles off.

39Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)39Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

ThuFriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Oroville Municipal Airport

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 Oroville Municipal Airport, the next 46 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.

ThuFriSat

Airfield

Code
OVE
ICAO
KOVE
IATA
OVE
Field elevation
192 ft
Serves
Oroville
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
OVE
Wind now
Variable at 5 mph, read 15 Oct, 19:53

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
02 / 206,020 ft100 ftAsphalt34° / 214°--
13 / 313,540 ft100 ftAsphalt142° / 322°--
022013312,000 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 Oroville (OVE), Oroville Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

81 F at 7 PM; 92 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 50 F at its coolest, 6 AM.

Now
81F
7 PM
Highest
92F
2 PM
Lowest
50F
6 AM
Temperature and Dew point at Oroville, temperature from 50.0 to 92.0, the latest 81.0; dew point from 31.0 to 43.0, the latest 31.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF204060801009 PMOct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PMFREEZINGTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 31 F, the air 16% saturated; the humidity ran from 14% at 11 AM to 77% at 7 AM.

Dew point now
31F
7 PM
Humidity now
16%
Humidity, range
14 to 77%
Relative humidity at Oroville, relative humidity from 14 to 77, the latest 16, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%0204060809 PMOct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM

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

Wind

3 mph from the east northeast at 8 PM; at its strongest 13 mph, 3 PM, with a gust of 26 mph at 4 PM.

Now
3mph
from the east northeast
Strongest
13mph
3 PM
Highest gust
26mph
4 PM
Wind and Gust at Oroville, wind from 0 to 13, the latest 3; gust from 17 to 26, the latest 17, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph01020309 PMOct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Oroville, wind direction from 10 to 350, the latest 60, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°0901802703609 PMOct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM

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

Pressure

30.07 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.

Now
30.07inHg
8 PM
3 hours
+0.03inHg
rising
24 hours
-0.05inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Oroville, pressure, altimeter from 30.04 to 30.19, the latest 30.07, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0030.0530.1030.1530.209 PMOct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM

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
Visibility at Oroville, visibility from 10.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.5109 PMOct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

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

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Oroville Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.

measured now2 instruments

OrovilleOVE

At an airfield/0.2 mi away/190 ft/2 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

OrovilleOROC1

At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/158 ft/34 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Palermo 0.6 WSWCA-BT-48

In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/186 ft/6 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

-

Snow on the ground

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