Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 79° after 90° today.
Now. Deland Municipal Sidney H Taylor Field is 72° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 69°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 72° by 7 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. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 75°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 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 28 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Deland Municipal Sidney H Taylor Field, Florida.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Daytona Beach (FL), 8 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 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 5 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 4,301 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 49° / 229° | Calm | Calm |
| 12 / 30 | 6,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 117° / 297° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from DeLand (DED), Deland Municipal Sidney H Taylor Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 11 PM Thursday; 87 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 69 F, the air 88% saturated; the humidity ran from 50% at 12 PM Thursday to 95% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 11 PM Thursday; at its strongest 10 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.10 inHg at 11 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg higher 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
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,500 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 9 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
DeLand: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Deland Municipal Sidney H Taylor Field, 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
DeLandDED
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/70 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
De Leon Springs - Lake WoodruffLWQF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.5 mi away/57 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sellers Lake #1S2012
At a soil climate station/21.2 mi away/75 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
DeLand 0.5 NNEFL-VL-118
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/81 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DelandDELF1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/69 ft/10 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.