Airports/California/Redding Municipal Airport
Now. Redding Municipal Airport is 62° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 92° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 88°, and the coolest Monday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Redding Municipal Airport, California.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Redding (CA), 5 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 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.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 5,067 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 140° / 320° | Calm | Calm |
| 16 / 34 | 7,003 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Redding Municipal (RDD), Redding Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 8 PM Thursday; 92 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 50 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 34 F, the air 24% saturated; the humidity ran from 11% at 3 PM Thursday to 63% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the north northeast at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 11 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 23 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.12 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.03 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
Redding Municipal: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Redding Municipal 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/502 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/0.5 mi away/499 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ObrienCF167
Beside a road/20.7 mi away/1,388 ft/883 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
French GulchS2218
At a soil climate station/23.9 mi away/3,704 ft/3,199 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Redding 3.8 SCA-SH-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/444 ft/61 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cottonwood FisheriesCFSC1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.9 mi away/438 ft/67 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.