Temperature
64 F at 12 AM; 73 F at its warmest, 2 AM Thursday, and 62 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 73F
- 2 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 62F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base, Delaware
Medium airport in Kent County, Delaware63°
81°/59°
Overcast·
Feels like 63°·Light breeze 7 mph SE
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 90% around 1 AM.
Now. Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base is 63° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (96%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
80%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
63feels63
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8159
90%
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
5649
96%
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
5842
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6145
28%
16mph
Tue
Oct 20
6548
18%
16mph
Wed
Oct 21
6550
10%
15mph
Thu
Oct 22
6350
10%
15mph
63°
81°59°
56°49°
58°42°
61°45°
65°48°
65°50°
63°50°
As of 1:00 AM in Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
Air quality
The air at Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Kent County (DE), 7 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good10.9 mi
- Ozone22Good23 ppb10.9 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 56, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 56YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- DOV
- ICAO
- KDOV
- IATA
- DOV
- Field elevation
- 24 ft
- Serves
- Dover
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- DOV
- Wind now
- From 130° at 6 mph, read 15 Oct, 23:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 9,602 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 3° / 183° | 4 mph head, on 19 | 5 mph from the left |
| 14 / 32 | 12,903 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 126° / 306° | 6 mph head, on 14 | None |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Dover AFB (DOV), Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 58 F, the air 80% saturated; the humidity ran from 60% at 1 PM Thursday to 80% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 58F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 80%
- Humidity, range
- 60 to 80%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
9 mph from the southeast at 12 AM; at its strongest 16 mph, 4 AM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 10 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 9mph
- from the southeast
- Strongest
- 16mph
- 4 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 17mph
- 10 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.05 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.05inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.07inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- +0.07inHg
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 1,700 ft at 9 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 19 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,700ft
- 9 PM Thursday
- 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
- 0.00in
- 2 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Dover AFB: 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 Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base, 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 now3 instruments
Dover AFBDOV
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/30 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-95 and DE-896DEL17
Beside a road/3.1 mi away/79 ft/55 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
DoverDRSD1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.2 mi away/3 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
DoverDOVD1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/16 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Dover 0.5 SSWDE-KN-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/28 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Delaware
14 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Dover Base Housingcommunity, 1 mi
- Little Creektown, 3 mi
- Kent Acrescommunity, 3 mi
- Rising Sun-Lebanoncommunity, 3 mi
- Highland Acrescommunity, 3 mi
- Rodney Villagecommunity, 4 mi
- Dovercity, 4 mi
- Magnoliatown, 4 mi
- Camdentown, 5 mi
- Wyomingtown, 5 mi
- Woodside Eastcommunity, 6 mi
- Bowerstown, 6 mi
Airports near Dover Civil Air Terminal/Dover Air Force Base
- Delaware Airpark33N, 9 mi
- Delaware Coastal AirportGED, 31 mi
- Wilmington AirportILG, 39 mi