Temperature
66 F at 11 PM; 86 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 62 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 66F
- 11 PM
- Highest
- 86F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 62F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 84° today.
Now. Griffin Spalding County Airport is 70° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 59°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the west-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 64): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 11:15 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Griffin Spalding County Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
Index 64, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Atlanta (GA), 30 miles off.
Moderate each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 74, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 3,701 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | 1 mph head, on 32 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Spalding (6A2), Griffin Spalding County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
66 F at 11 PM; 86 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 62 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 63 F, the air 88% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 3 PM to 98% at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 11 PM; at its strongest 5 mph, 11 AM, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.10 inHg at 11 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 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
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Spalding: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Griffin Spalding County 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 now3 instruments
Spalding6A2
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/958 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-75 @ Husdon Bridge Rd GAGA310
Beside a road/19.4 mi away/801 ft/157 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AdgatevilleONFG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/32.5 mi away/617 ft/341 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Griffin 0.5 ESEGA-SP-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/952 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
McdonoughMCDG1
At a cooperative observer's station/19.6 mi away/696 ft/262 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mcdonough (MCDG1), 19.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.