Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Destin Executive Airport until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 81° today.
Now. Destin Executive Airport is 77° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 72°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 81° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° by 7 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 Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Sunday, near 70°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 26 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Destin Executive Airport, Florida.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Okaloosa County (FL), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 61, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 5,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 142° / 322° | 5 mph head, on 14 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Destin - Fort Walton Beach (DTS), Destin Executive Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
79 F at 10 PM Thursday; 85 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 71 F at its coolest, 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 72 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 53% at 10 AM Thursday to 97% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
4 mph from the south southeast at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 7 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 1 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 6,000 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 4 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
The 4 instruments nearest Destin Executive Airport, 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/24 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Naval Live OaksNLOF1
On a military installation/39.8 mi away/28 ft/5 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Destin 1.3 NWFL-OK-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/14 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NicevilleNCVF1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/102 ft/79 ft above 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.