Airports/California/Brackett Field
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Brackett Field until 8 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Brackett Field is 72° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 89° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 68° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 87°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 66°. Rain is likely Tuesday (55%) and Wednesday (63%). Rain is possible Thursday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:32 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Brackett Field, California.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, E San Gabriel Vly (CA), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 49, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08L / 26R unlit | 3,661 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 93° / 273° | - | - |
| 08R / 26L | 4,840 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 93° / 273° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from La Verne/Brackett (POC), Brackett Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
79 F at 8 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 57 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 36 F, the air 21% saturated; the humidity ran from 15% at 2 PM Thursday to 51% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
9 mph from the south southwest at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 12 mph, 11 AM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.98 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than 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
La Verne/Brackett: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Brackett 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/1,010 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tanbark RAWSTANC1
A remote fire weather station/5.3 mi away/1,962 ft/951 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-15 : Jurupa AvenueCF174
Beside a road/13.6 mi away/908 ft/103 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
La Verne 0.4 SCA-LA-107
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,118 ft/107 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Covina YardCTFC1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/594 ft/417 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.