Temperature
51 F at 5 AM; 84 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 51 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 51F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 84F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 51F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Porterville Municipal Airport
Porterville Municipal Airport, California
Small airport in Tulare County, California53°
92°/54°
Clear·
Feels like 53°·Light breeze 5 mph ESE
Now. Porterville Municipal Airport is 53° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 89° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 60° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 63): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 92°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 72°. Rain is possible Wednesday (45%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
63Air quality
63%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
53feels53
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
9254
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
9257
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
9156
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
8655
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7652
26%
Wed
Oct 21
7249
45%
Thu
Oct 22
7247
26%
53°
92°54°
92°57°
91°56°
86°55°
76°52°
72°49°
72°47°
As of 6:00 AM in Porterville Municipal Airport, California.
Air quality
The air at Porterville Municipal Airport
Index 63, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Visalia (CA), 25 miles off.
63Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)57Moderate-
- Ozone27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)63Moderate-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 64, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 64YesterdayOct 15
- 77TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Porterville Municipal Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. 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 Porterville Municipal Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- PTV
- ICAO
- KPTV
- IATA
- PTV
- Field elevation
- 442 ft
- Serves
- Porterville
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- PTV
- Wind now
- From 110° at 5 mph, read 16 Oct, 05:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 5,960 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 136° / 316° | 4 mph head, on 12 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Porterville (PTV), Porterville Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 39 F, the air 63% saturated; the humidity ran from 19% at 3 PM Thursday to 66% at 7 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 39F
- 5 AM
- Humidity now
- 63%
- Humidity, range
- 19 to 66%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
5 mph from the south southeast at 6 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 5 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 5mph
- from the south southeast
- Strongest
- 8mph
- 5 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.11 inHg at 6 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.11inHg
- 6 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.05inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 5 miles at 2 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 5mi
- 2 AM
- 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
Porterville: 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 Porterville 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 now3 instruments
PortervillePTV
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/436 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/1.5 mi away/456 ft/14 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Success LakeSUWC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.7 mi away/655 ft/213 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Porterville 2.4 NNWCA-TL-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/422 ft/20 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LindsayLINC1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.0 mi away/420 ft/22 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 Porterville Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Portervillecity, 3 mi
- Terra Bellacommunity, 5 mi
- Poplar-Cotton Centercommunity, 5 mi
- East Portervillecommunity, 5 mi
- Woodville Farm Labor Campcommunity, 6 mi
- Strathmorecommunity, 8 mi
- Plainviewcommunity, 9 mi
- Woodvillecommunity, 9 mi
- Ducorcommunity, 10 mi
- Lindsaycity, 12 mi
- El Ranchocommunity, 13 mi
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Airports near Porterville Municipal Airport
- Delano Municipal AirportDLO, 22 mi
- Visalia Municipal AirportVIS, 27 mi
- Hanford Municipal AirportHJO, 37 mi
- Meadows FieldBFL, 41 mi
- Bakersfield International AirportL45, 49 mi
- Reedley Municipal AirportO32, 49 mi
- Lemoore Naval Air Station (Reeves Field) AirportNLC, 54 mi
- Fresno Yosemite International AirportFAT, 63 mi