Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Whiting Field Naval Air Station - North until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 86° today.
Now. Whiting Field Naval Air Station - North is 67° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 Thursday, near 80°, and the coolest Sunday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 2:00 AM in Whiting Field Naval Air Station - North, Florida.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Pensacola (FL), 8 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 61, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,003 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt | 47° / 227° | - | - |
| 14 / 32 | 6,001 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Whiting Fld NAS-N. (NSE), Whiting Field Naval Air Station - North's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
85 F at 11 AM Thursday; 85 F at its warmest, 11 AM Thursday, and 66 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 59 F, the air 42% saturated; the humidity ran from 42% at 11 AM Thursday to 83% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 11 AM Thursday; at its strongest 7 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.13 inHg at 10 AM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 6 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Whiting Fld NAS-N.: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Whiting Field Naval Air Station - North, 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/200 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Naval Live OaksNLOF1
On a military installation/25.7 mi away/28 ft/171 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Milton 8.2 NEFL-SR-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/60 ft/139 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PesacolaPSAF1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/118 ft/81 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.