Temperature
79 F at 6 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 78 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 79F
- 6 AM
- Highest
- 88F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 78F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 7 AM, the chance peaking at 76% around 9 AM.
Now. Albert Whitted Airport is 78° and mostly clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 76°, so the air feels very oppressive. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 76° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 80° all week. Rain is likely tomorrow (79%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:01 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:24 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 31 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Albert Whitted Airport, Florida.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, St. Petersburg (FL), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 42, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 6 miles Sat 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 3,676 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 62° / 242° | 7 mph head, on 07 | 2 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 2,864 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 1 mph head, on 36 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from St Petersburg (SPG), Albert Whitted Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
79 F at 6 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 78 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 76 F, the air 91% saturated; the humidity ran from 59% at 5 PM Thursday to 94% at 3 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the east at 6 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 10 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.02 inHg at 6 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower 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 900 ft at 6 AM; a base was reported in 10 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
St Petersburg: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Albert Whitted 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ruskin WFOTBW
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.4 mi away/39 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
St. Petersburg 0.7 NNEFL-PN-109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/37 ft/30 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
St Petersburg 6WNWSZPF1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/23 ft/16 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at St Petersburg 6WNW (SZPF1), 7.1 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.