Airports/California/Santa Monica Municipal Airport
Alert. A Heat Advisory is in force for Santa Monica Municipal Airport until 8 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Santa Monica Municipal Airport is 74° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 89° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 72° 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 Thursday, near 66°. Rain is likely Tuesday (53%) and Wednesday (58%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 12:00 AM in Santa Monica Municipal Airport, California.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, NW Coastal LA (CA), 2 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, 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.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 3,500 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 44° / 224° | 1 mph head, on 21 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Santa Monica Muni (SMO), Santa Monica Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
76 F at 8 PM Thursday; 86 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 58 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 48 F, the air 37% saturated; the humidity ran from 15% at 7 PM Thursday to 60% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
3 mph from the north northeast at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 12 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 20 mph at 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.94 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.09 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 8 miles at 7 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
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
Santa Monica Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Santa Monica Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/174 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beverly Hills - RAWS #5108BVRC1
A remote fire weather station/7.9 mi away/1,083 ft/913 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Santa Monica 1.3 NNECA-LA-48
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/186 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Culver CityCVRC1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/59 ft/111 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.