Temperature
77 F at 9 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 77F
- 9 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 68F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 77° after 90° today.
Now. Inverness Airport is 74° and clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 73° by 6 AM, with some cloud. 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 Tuesday, near 78°, and the coolest Sunday, near 74°. Rain is likely tomorrow (50%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:20 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 day is 11 hours 29 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Inverness Airport, Florida.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Citrus County (FL), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 6° / 186° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Inverness (INF), Inverness Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
77 F at 9 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 77 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 55% at 5 PM Thursday to 100% at 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 9 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 11 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.09 inHg at 9 AM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 5 AM; 7 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 3,100 ft at 11 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 6 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
Inverness: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Inverness Airport, 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 now1 instrument
InvernessINF
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/52 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sewage Disosal PltINVF1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.4 mi away/66 ft/16 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Inverness 1.6 SEFL-CT-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/114 ft/64 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.