Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 76° after 89° today.
Now. Gainesville Regional Airport is 71° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 69° by 8 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 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:17 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 Gainesville Regional Airport, Florida.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Gainesville (FL), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, 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 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 4,158 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 61° / 241° | Calm | Calm |
| 11 / 29 | 7,504 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 102° / 282° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Gainesville Rgnl (GNV), Gainesville Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
70 F at 11 PM Thursday; 87 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 67 F, the air 90% saturated; the humidity ran from 45% at 5 PM Thursday to 97% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the east northeast at 11 PM Thursday; at its strongest 6 mph, 3 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.12 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 3,900 ft at 12 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 5 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
Gainesville Rgnl: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Gainesville Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/151 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Olustee RAWSOLSF1
A remote fire weather station/39.8 mi away/128 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gainesville 5.8 EFL-AL-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/128 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Usher Forestry TwrCHIF1
At a cooperative observer's station/38.2 mi away/69 ft/83 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.