USAF Academy Airfield, Colorado

Small airport in El Paso County, Colorado

Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert

40° 52°/34°

Clear· Feels like 35°·Gentle breeze 8 mph NNW

Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for USAF Academy Airfield until 9 AM 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. USAF Academy Airfield is 40° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:26 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

35Air quality

73%Humidity

2%Cloud

Now

8:00 PM

40feels35

Today

Oct 15

5234

37%

30mph

UV 6

Fri

Oct 16

5831

17mph

UV 7

Sat

Oct 17

7132

UV 7

Sun

Oct 18

7339

Mon

Oct 19

6840

UV 6

Tue

Oct 20

7240

UV 6

Wed

Oct 21

7443

40°

52°34°

58°31°

71°32°

73°39°

68°40°

72°40°

74°43°

As of 8:00 PM in USAF Academy Airfield, Colorado.

Air quality

The air at USAF Academy Airfield

Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Colorado Springs (CO), 11 miles off.

35Good

Ozone35Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.

GoodModerate

19YesterdayOct 14
GoodTodayOct 15
GoodFriOct 16

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at USAF Academy Airfield

0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.01in
Last 3 days: 0.13in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 8%

Visibility

How far you can see at USAF Academy Airfield, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 12 PM.

Airfield

Code: AFF
ICAO: KAFF
IATA: AFF
Field elevation: 6,572 ft
Serves: Colorado Springs
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: AFF
Wind now: From 350° at 6 mph, read 15 Oct, 19:55

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
09 / 27 unlit	2,493 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	95° / 275°	2 mph head, on 27	6 mph from the right
16C / 34C unlit	4,501 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	169° / 349°	6 mph head, on 34C	None
16L / 34R unlit	3,513 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	171° / 351°	6 mph head, on 34R	None
16R / 34L unlit	4,500 ft	40 ft	Asphalt	169° / 349°	6 mph head, on 34L	None

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Air Force Academy (AFF), USAF Academy Airfield's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

38 F at 7 PM; 50 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 37 F at its coolest, 2 AM.

Now: 38F; 7 PM
Highest: 50F; 4 PM
Lowest: 37F; 2 AM

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 30 F, the air 74% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 4 PM to 92% at 1 AM.

Dew point now: 30F; 7 PM
Humidity now: 74%
Humidity, range: 47 to 92%

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

6 mph from the north at 7 PM; at its strongest 27 mph, 10 AM, with a gust of 39 mph at 9 AM.

Now: 6mph; from the north
Strongest: 27mph; 10 AM
Highest gust: 39mph; 9 AM

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.57 inHg at 7 PM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.50 inHg higher than a day before.

Now: 30.57inHg; 7 PM
3 hours: +0.06inHg; rising
24 hours: +0.50inHg

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

10 miles or more every hour.

Now: 10+mi
Lowest: 10+mi
Hours under a mile: 0

How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 10 PM Wednesday; a base was reported in 19 of the hours.

Lowest base now: -
Lowest in 24 hours: 700ft; 10 PM Wednesday
Hours with a base reported: 19

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

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

Air Force Academy: 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 USAF Academy Airfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Air Force AcademyAFF

At an airfield/0.5 mi away/6,572 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

I-25 @ Fountain Creek (85*)CO032

Beside a road/5.2 mi away/6,185 ft/387 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Colorado Springs 5NE - AMRADBGPC2

At a river or reservoir gauge/5.6 mi away/6,849 ft/277 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Colorado Springs 7.4 NCO-EP-509

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/6,360 ft/212 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Black Forest 6WNWBKFC2

At a cooperative observer's station/4.1 mi away/6,991 ft/419 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

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USAF Academy Airfield, Colorado

The air at USAF Academy Airfield

The days ahead

Smoke, the next 41 hours

What has fallen at USAF Academy Airfield

How far you can see at USAF Academy Airfield, the next 41 hours

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Airfield

Runways

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Temperature

Humidity and dew point

Wind

Pressure

Visibility

Cloud base

Precipitation

What is measuring near here

What the snow tracker reads here

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