Temperature
81 F at 7 AM; 87 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 80 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 81F
- 7 AM
- Highest
- 87F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 80F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Patrick Space Force Base, Florida
Medium airport in Brevard County, Florida81°
88°/79°
Clear·
Feels like 87°·Light breeze 6 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow afternoon, from about 3 PM (56%).
Now. Patrick Space Force Base is 81° and clear at 8 AM. With the humidity it feels like 87°. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 76° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 82° all week. Thunderstorms is likely tomorrow (73%). Rain is possible Sunday (43%), Monday (37%) and Thursday (34%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 29 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:15 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 30 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
83%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
81feels87
11%
Today
Oct 16
8879
64%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8375
73%
24mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
8172
43%
29mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8172
37%
24mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8172
21%
21mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
8172
16%
18mph
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
8171
34%
17mph
UV 7
81°
88°79°
83°75°
81°72°
81°72°
81°72°
81°72°
81°71°
As of 8:00 AM in Patrick Space Force Base, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Patrick Space Force Base
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Melbourne (FL), 9 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good12.2 mi
- Ozone29Good24 ppb5.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good12.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Patrick Space Force Base
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 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 Patrick Space Force Base, the next 43 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 3 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- COF
- ICAO
- KCOF
- IATA
- COF
- Field elevation
- 8 ft
- Serves
- Cocoa Beach
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- COF
- Wind now
- From 170° at 5 mph, read 16 Oct, 07:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 9,008 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt | 20° / 200° | 4 mph head, on 21 | 2 mph from the left |
| 11 / 29 | 3,993 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt | 106° / 286° | 2 mph head, on 11 | 4 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Patrick AFB/Cocoa B (COF), Patrick Space Force Base's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 76 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 63% at 11 AM Thursday to 88% at 6 AM.
- Dew point now
- 76F
- 7 AM
- Humidity now
- 83%
- Humidity, range
- 63 to 88%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
5 mph from the south at 7 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 8 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 5mph
- from the south
- Strongest
- 14mph
- 8 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.01 inHg at 7 AM, rising 0.02 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.01inHg
- 7 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.02inHg
- rising
- 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 2,400 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 2 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 2,400ft
- 8 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 2
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
- 5 AM
- Hours with some
- 1
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Patrick AFB/Cocoa B: 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 Patrick Space 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/10 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Titusville 7 E92821
At a climate reference station/26.4 mi away/3 ft/5 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
CRN Titusville/Kennedy Space CenterCTKF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.8 mi away/10 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Satellite Beach 1.7 NNWFL-BV-109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/8 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MelbourneMLBF1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/30 ft/22 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Florida
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Patrick Space Force Base
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Patrick AFBcommunity, 1 mi
- South Patrick Shorescommunity, 2 mi
- Satellite Beachcity, 4 mi
- Palm Shorestown, 4 mi
- Indian Harbour Beachcity, 6 mi
- Viera Eastcommunity, 7 mi
- Cocoa Beachcity, 7 mi
- Viera Westcommunity, 8 mi
- Rockledgecity, 9 mi
- Merritt Islandcommunity, 10 mi
- Indialantictown, 11 mi
- Melbourne Villagetown, 11 mi
Airports near Patrick Space Force Base
- Merritt Island AirportCOI, 9 mi
- Melbourne Orlando International AirportMLB, 9 mi
- Cape Canaveral SFS Skid StripXMR, 16 mi
- Valkaria AirportX59, 19 mi
- Space Coast Regional AirportTIX, 22 mi
- Space Florida Launch and Landing FacilityTTS, 27 mi
- Sebastian Municipal AirportX26, 30 mi
- Arthur Dunn Air ParkX21, 30 mi