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Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Florida

Medium airport in Broward County, Florida

Air quality

The air at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport

Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Broward County (FL), 20 miles off.

23Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good4.7 mi
  • Ozone23Good22 ppb7.7 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)7Good11.5 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide8Good8.4 ppb4.7 mi
  • Sulfur dioxide0Good0.4 ppb11.5 mi
  • Carbon monoxide-0.5 ppm4.7 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 34, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, the next 46 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 2 PM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
FXE
ICAO
KFXE
IATA
FXE
Field elevation
13 ft
Serves
Fort Lauderdale
Kind
Medium airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
FXE
Wind now
From 80° at 9 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:53

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
09 / 276,002 ft100 ftAsphalt84° / 264°9 mph head, on 091 mph from the left
13 / 314,000 ft100 ftAsphalt129° / 309°6 mph head, on 137 mph from the left
092713312,000 ftN80° 9 mph
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 Fort Lauderdale (FXE), Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

83 F at 10 PM; 89 F at its warmest, 12 PM, and 81 F at its coolest, 4 AM.

Now
83F
10 PM
Highest
89F
12 PM
Lowest
81F
4 AM
Temperature and Dew point at Fort Lauderdale, temperature from 81.0 to 89.0, the latest 83.0; dew point from 74.0 to 77.0, the latest 76.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF7075808590Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 76 F, the air 80% saturated; the humidity ran from 64% at 2 PM to 85% at 7 AM.

Dew point now
76F
10 PM
Humidity now
80%
Humidity, range
64 to 85%
Relative humidity at Fort Lauderdale, relative humidity from 64 to 85, the latest 80, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%60708090Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Wind

12 mph from the east at 11 PM; at its strongest 13 mph, 5 PM, with a gust of 22 mph at 1 PM.

Now
12mph
from the east
Strongest
13mph
5 PM
Highest gust
22mph
1 PM
Wind and Gust at Fort Lauderdale, wind from 6 to 13, the latest 12; gust from 16 to 22, the latest 20, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph510152025Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Fort Lauderdale, wind direction from 50 to 100, the latest 80, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°090180270360Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Pressure

30.04 inHg at 11 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.04inHg
11 PM
3 hours
+0.01inHg
steady
24 hours
+0.01inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Fort Lauderdale, pressure, altimeter from 29.99 to 30.07, the latest 30.04, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg29.9830.0030.0230.0530.07Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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
Visibility at Fort Lauderdale, visibility from 10.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.510Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 1,900 ft at 7 AM; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.

Lowest base now
1,900ft
Lowest in 24 hours
1,900ft
7 AM
Hours with a base reported
21
Lowest cloud base at Fort Lauderdale, lowest cloud base from 1,900 to 2,700, the latest 1,900, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft1,8002,0002,2002,4002,6002,800Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMMVFR

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
4 AM
Hours with some
1
Precipitation at Fort Lauderdale, precipitation from 0.00 to trace, the latest 0.00, in inches.PRECIPITATIONin0.000.030.050.070.10Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002

Fort Lauderdale: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.

measured now2 instruments

Fort LauderdaleFXE

At an airfield/0.2 mi away/13 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Loxahatchee RAWSLOHF1

A remote fire weather station/21.0 mi away/26 ft/13 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Oakland Park 1.0 WNWFL-BW-145

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/5 ft/8 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Fort Lauderdale BeachFLBF1

At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/43 ft/30 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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