Temperature
73 F at 1 AM; 89 F at its warmest, 1 PM Friday, and 72 F at its coolest, 7 AM Friday.
- Now
- 73F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 89F
- 1 PM Friday
- Lowest
- 72F
- 7 AM Friday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Tampa Executive Airport, Florida
Small airport in Hillsborough County, Florida74°
78°/73°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 74°·Calm 0 mph SE
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 10 AM (50%).
Now. Tampa Executive Airport is 74° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 73°, so the air feels very oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 1 AM. Tonight falls to about 64° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 80° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:58 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 12:18 AM after midnight. 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, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
30Air quality
99%Humidity
87%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
74feels74
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 17
7873
76%
12mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7963
15mph
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
8064
14mph
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
8061
UV 8
Wed
Oct 21
8061
UV 8
Thu
Oct 22
8061
UV 8
Fri
Oct 23
8059
UV 7
74°
78°73°
79°63°
80°64°
80°61°
80°61°
80°61°
80°59°
As of 1:00 AM in Tampa Executive Airport, Florida.
Air quality
The air at Tampa Executive Airport
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Tampa (FL), 6 miles off.
30Good
- Ozone30Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 16
- 50TodayOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Tampa Executive Airport
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.21in
- Last 3 days
- 0.21in
Visibility
How far you can see at Tampa Executive Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 11 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- VDF
- ICAO
- KVDF
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 22 ft
- Serves
- Tampa
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- VDF
- Wind now
- Calm, read 17 Oct, 01:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 42° / 222° | Calm | Calm |
| 18 / 36 | 3,219 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Vandenberg Airport/Tampa (VDF), Tampa Executive Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 73 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 63% at 1 PM Friday to 100% at 4 AM Friday.
- Dew point now
- 73F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 63 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
2 mph from the northeast at 1 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 4 PM Friday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 2mph
- from the northeast
- Strongest
- 7mph
- 4 PM Friday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.98 inHg at 1 AM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.98inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.03inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.05inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 3 miles at 4 PM Friday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 3mi
- 4 PM Friday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 600 ft at 4 PM Friday; a base was reported in 15 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 16,000ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 600ft
- 4 PM Friday
- Hours with a base reported
- 15
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.06 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.05 in, in the hour to 6 AM Friday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Wettest hour
- 0.05in
- 6 AM Friday
- Hours with some
- 4
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Tampa Executive 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/23 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Carrollwood 1NECWOF1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/43 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Seffner 0.8 WSWFL-HB-196
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/64 ft/42 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hillsborough St PkZPHF1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/98 ft/76 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Tampa Executive Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- East Lake-Orient Parkcommunity, 2 mi
- Mangocommunity, 3 mi
- Temple Terracecity, 3 mi
- Thonotosassacommunity, 3 mi
- Seffnercommunity, 4 mi
- Palm River-Clair Melcommunity, 6 mi
- Brandoncommunity, 7 mi
- Universitycommunity, 7 mi
- Dovercommunity, 8 mi
- Tampacity, 8 mi
- Progress Villagecommunity, 9 mi
- Lake Magdalenecommunity, 9 mi
Airports near Tampa Executive Airport
- Peter O Knight AirportTPF, 9 mi
- Plant City Municipal AirportPCM, 11 mi
- Tampa International AirportTPA, 12 mi
- MacDill Air Force BaseMCF, 16 mi
- Zephyrhills Municipal AirportZPH, 19 mi
- Lakeland Linder International AirportLAL, 20 mi
- St. Petersburg Clearwater International AirportPIE, 22 mi
- Albert Whitted AirportSPG, 24 mi