Temperature
65 F at 8 PM; 81 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 43 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 65F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 81F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 43F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport
Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport, California
Medium airport in Los Angeles County, California66°
85°/50°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Moderate breeze 17 mph E
Now. Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport is 66° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 (43%) and Wednesday (48%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 36 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.
0UV Low
37Air quality
33%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
66feels66
17mph
Today
Oct 15
8550
34mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
8159
36mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8057
23mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7952
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8054
20mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7051
43%
18mph
Wed
Oct 21
6445
48%
66°
85°50°
81°59°
80°57°
79°52°
80°54°
70°51°
64°45°
As of 10:00 PM in Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport, California.
Air quality
The air at Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Antelope Vly (CA), 4 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone37Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- 55TodayOct 15
- 53FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport, 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
- PMD
- ICAO
- KPMD
- IATA
- PMD
- Field elevation
- 2,543 ft
- Serves
- Palmdale
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- PMD
- Wind now
- From 110° at 12 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 12,001 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 52° / 232° | 6 mph head, on 04 | 10 mph from the right |
| 07 / 25 | 12,002 ft | 200 ft | Concrete | 86° / 266° | 11 mph head, on 07 | 5 mph from the right |
| 072 / 252 unlit | 6,000 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | - | - | - |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Palmdate (PMD), Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 33 F, the air 30% saturated; the humidity ran from 14% at 2 PM to 53% at 6 AM.
- Dew point now
- 33F
- 8 PM
- Humidity now
- 30%
- Humidity, range
- 14 to 53%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
10 mph from the east southeast at 8 PM; at its strongest 25 mph, 2 PM, with a gust of 43 mph at 1 PM.
- Now
- 10mph
- from the east southeast
- Strongest
- 25mph
- 2 PM
- Highest gust
- 43mph
- 1 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.16 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.16inHg
- 8 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.04inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.02inHg
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
Palmdate: 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 Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport, 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
PalmdatePMD
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,539 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Palmdale 8SSE RAWSLPDC1
A remote fire weather station/6.5 mi away/2,951 ft/408 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SR-2 - Wrightwood Fire StationCF139
Beside a road/32.0 mi away/5,921 ft/3,378 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
PalmdalePMDC1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/2,599 ft/56 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lancaster 5.5 ECA-LA-77
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/2,408 ft/135 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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