Temperature
65 F at 1 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 65F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 86F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 63F
- 3 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Lake City Gateway Airport, Florida
Small airport in Columbia County, Florida65°
88°/66°
Clear·
Feels like 65°·Calm 0 mph SE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 88° today.
Now. Lake City Gateway Airport is 65° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 65° 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 78°, and the coolest Sunday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
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 26 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
39Air quality
100%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
65feels65
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8866
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7465
14%
14mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6853
15mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7354
14mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7755
12mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7855
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7856
UV 7
65°
88°66°
74°65°
68°53°
73°54°
77°55°
78°55°
78°56°
As of 2:00 AM in Lake City Gateway Airport, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Lake City Gateway Airport
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Columbia and Suwannee Counties (FL), 13 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)39Good2.3 mi
- Ozone8Good7 ppb2.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake City Gateway Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 Lake City Gateway Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- LCQ
- ICAO
- KLCQ
- IATA
- LCQ
- Field elevation
- 201 ft
- Serves
- Lake City
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- LCQ
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 01:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 4,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 52° / 232° | Calm | Calm |
| 10 / 28 | 8,003 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 97° / 277° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Lake City (LCQ), Lake City Gateway Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 65 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 39% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 65F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 39 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 1 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 9 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 5mph
- 9 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.09 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.09inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.01inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.3 miles at 7 AM Thursday, under a mile for 4 hours; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 0.3mi
- 7 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 4
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 10 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 100ft
- 5 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 10
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
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Lake City: 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 Lake City Gateway 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 now2 instruments
Lake CityLCQ
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/187 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Olustee RAWSOLSF1
A remote fire weather station/10.5 mi away/128 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Div ForestryLCTF1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/118 ft/83 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake City 2.8 ESEFL-CB-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/161 ft/40 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Florida
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Lake City Gateway Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Watertowncommunity, 2 mi
- Lake Citycity, 4 mi
- Five Pointscommunity, 5 mi
- White Springstown, 15 mi
- Lake Butlercity, 18 mi
- Worthington Springstown, 20 mi
- Fort Whitetown, 20 mi
- Raifordtown, 22 mi
- High Springscity, 25 mi
- Brookertown, 25 mi
- La Crossetown, 25 mi
- Glen St. Marytown, 26 mi
Airports near Lake City Gateway Airport
- Suwannee County Airport24J, 28 mi
- Gainesville Regional AirportGNV, 39 mi
- Keystone Heights Airport42J, 39 mi
- Cecil AirportVQQ, 42 mi
- Whitehouse Naval Outlying FieldNEN, 44 mi
- Herlong AirportHEG, 47 mi
- Cross City AirportCTY, 49 mi
- Jacksonville Naval Air Station (Towers Field)NIP, 54 mi