Airports/California/Whiteman Airport
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Whiteman Airport until 8 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Whiteman Airport is 76° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 90° by 3 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 91°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 70°. Rain is likely Wednesday (69%). Rain is possible Tuesday (47%) and Thursday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Whiteman Airport, California.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, E San Fernando Vly (CA), 8 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 4,120 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 139° / 319° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from La / Whiteman (WHP), Whiteman Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
84 F at 6 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 72 F at its coolest, 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 30 F, the air 14% saturated; the humidity ran from 12% at 3 PM Thursday to 19% at 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the northwest at 6 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 12 PM Thursday, with a gust of 36 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 6 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.06 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 / Whiteman: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Whiteman 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,004 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little Tujunga RAWSLTJC1
A remote fire weather station/3.8 mi away/1,355 ft/352 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Shadow Hills 2.1 NNECA-LA-156
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/1,156 ft/153 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
San Fernando - Pacoima DamPOIC1
At a dam/4.9 mi away/1,533 ft/530 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
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