Now. Fairfield Municipal Airport is 52° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Fairfield Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 unlit | 2,505 ft | 140 ft | GRE | 86° / 266° | 13 mph head, on 26 | 13 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 5,503 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 12 mph head, on 36 | 14 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Fairfield (FFL), Fairfield Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
54 F at 10 PM Thursday; 64 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 52 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 51 F, the air 92% saturated; the humidity ran from 92% at 10 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 19 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 35 mph at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 mile at 3 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 4 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 18 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.04 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.04 in, in the hour to 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Fairfield: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Fairfield Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
FairfieldFFL
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/795 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ottumwa (US 63)ROTI4
Beside a road/23.1 mi away/643 ft/156 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mount Pleasant 1 SSW [CCOOP]MPZI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.5 mi away/719 ft/80 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FairfieldFRFI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/774 ft/25 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fairfield 1.4 WIA-JF-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/773 ft/26 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fairfield (FRFI4), 2.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.