Temperature
56 F at 8 PM; 70 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 40 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 56F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 70F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 40F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field is 57° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 75°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:54 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field, Idaho.
Air quality
Index 41, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Boise (ID), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10L / 28R | 10,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 115° / 295° | 7 mph head, on 10L | 1 mph from the right |
| 10R / 28L | 9,763 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 115° / 295° | 7 mph head, on 10R | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Boise Municipal (BOI), Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
56 F at 8 PM; 70 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 40 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 30 F, the air 37% saturated; the humidity ran from 23% at 4 PM to 73% at 6 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the east southeast at 9 PM; at its strongest 14 mph, 10 AM, with a gust of 21 mph at 10 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.52 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.25 inHg higher 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
Boise Municipal: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 7 instruments nearest Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/0.9 mi away/2,867 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Boise - NRAWS 6LLEI1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/2,862 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D3 - Broadway I-84 EastboundITD03
Beside a road/1.3 mi away/2,844 ft/27 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Orchard Range SiteS0674
At a soil climate station/20.2 mi away/3,200 ft/329 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Murphy 10 W04127
At a climate reference station/36.5 mi away/3,950 ft/1,079 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Boise NWS WfoBWOI1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/2,861 ft/10 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Boise 2.1 SWID-AD-57
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/2,778 ft/93 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Boise NWS Wfo (BWOI1), 0.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 19:00. measured daily
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.