Temperature
86 F at 1 PM; 89 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 86F
- 1 PM
- Highest
- 89F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Telfair Wheeler Airport, Georgia
Small airport in Wheeler County, Georgia86°
88°/63°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 86°·Light breeze 7 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 88° today.
Now. Telfair Wheeler Airport is 86° and partly cloudy at 1 PM. The dew point is 61°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 57° 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 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 66°. 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 11:13 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 23 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
7UV High
31Air quality
43%Humidity
43%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
86feels86
UV 7
Today
Oct 16
8863
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7157
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6648
12mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7046
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7748
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7951
UV 7
Thu
Oct 22
7852
UV 6
86°
88°63°
71°57°
66°48°
70°46°
77°48°
79°51°
78°52°
As of 1:00 PM in Telfair Wheeler Airport, Georgia.
Air quality
The air at Telfair Wheeler Airport
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Douglas (GA), 41 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 51YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Telfair Wheeler Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. 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 Telfair Wheeler Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MQW
- ICAO
- KMQW
- IATA
- MQW
- Field elevation
- 202 ft
- Serves
- Mc Rae
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MQW
- Wind now
- From 260° at 8 mph, read 16 Oct, 13:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 5,001 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 23° / 203° | 4 mph head, on 21 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Mc Rae (MQW), Telfair Wheeler Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 61 F, the air 43% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 61F
- 1 PM
- Humidity now
- 43%
- Humidity, range
- 40 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
9 mph from the west at 1 PM; at its strongest 9 mph, 12 PM, with a gust of 16 mph at 1 PM.
- Now
- 9mph
- from the west
- Strongest
- 9mph
- 12 PM
- Highest gust
- 16mph
- 1 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.02 inHg at 1 PM, falling 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.06 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.02inHg
- 1 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.06inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.06inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- 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 5,500 ft at 5 AM; a base was reported in 10 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 5,500ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 5,500ft
- 5 AM
- 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
Mc Rae: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Telfair Wheeler Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mc RaeMQW
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/197 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
McraeMRAG1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.2 mi away/246 ft/44 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/25.8 mi away/210 ft/8 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
McRae 6.6 SEGA-TE-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/214 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ga Forestry ComESTG1
At a cooperative observer's station/20.4 mi away/400 ft/198 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 Georgia
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Telfair Wheeler Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- McRae-Helenacity, 2 mi
- Scotlandcity, 5 mi
- Alamotown, 7 mi
- Chaunceycity, 11 mi
- Milancity, 12 mi
- Glenwoodcity, 13 mi
- Lumber Citycity, 16 mi
- Mount Vernoncity, 18 mi
- Eastmancity, 19 mi
- Aileycity, 19 mi
- Cadwelltown, 19 mi
- Rhinetown, 20 mi
Airports near Telfair Wheeler Airport
- Heart of Georgia Regional AirportEZM, 17 mi
- Hazlehurst AirportAZE, 20 mi
- Vidalia Regional AirportVDI, 31 mi
- Cochran Airport48A, 31 mi
- W H 'Bud' Barron AirportDBN, 33 mi
- Fitzgerald Municipal AirportFZG, 37 mi
- Baxley Municipal AirportBHC, 39 mi
- Swinton Smith Field at Reidsville Municipal AirportRVJ, 43 mi