Temperature
41 F at 12 AM; 70 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 34 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 41F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 70F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 34F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho
Medium airport in Elmore County, Idaho43°
74°/39°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Light breeze 4 mph ESE
Now. Mountain Home Air Force Base is 43° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 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 76°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 62°. Rain is possible Wednesday (31%) and Thursday (33%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
54%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
43feels40
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7439
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
7645
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
7240
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7642
16mph
Tue
Oct 20
6544
13mph
Wed
Oct 21
6240
31%
Thu
Oct 22
6239
33%
43°
74°39°
76°45°
72°40°
76°42°
65°44°
62°40°
62°39°
As of 1:00 AM in Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho.
Air quality
The air at Mountain Home Air Force Base
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Boise (ID), 44 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)26Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 38TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mountain Home Air Force Base
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Mountain Home Air Force Base, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MUO
- ICAO
- KMUO
- IATA
- MUO
- Field elevation
- 2,996 ft
- Serves
- Mountain Home
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MUO
- Wind now
- From 60° at 5 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 13,510 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 136° / 316° | 1 mph head, on 12 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Mountain Home AFB (MUO), Mountain Home Air Force Base's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 26 F, the air 54% saturated; the humidity ran from 21% at 5 PM Thursday to 80% at 7 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 26F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 54%
- Humidity, range
- 21 to 80%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
5 mph from the east northeast at 12 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 5mph
- from the east northeast
- Strongest
- 14mph
- 10 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.55 inHg at 12 AM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.18 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.55inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.04inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.18inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 6 miles at 8 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 6mi
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
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
Mountain Home AFB: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Mountain Home Air Force Base, 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,995 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/1.1 mi away/3,005 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D3 - Hammett HillITD70
Beside a road/14.8 mi away/3,166 ft/170 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Orchard Range SiteS0674
At a soil climate station/20.3 mi away/3,200 ft/204 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Mountain Home 2.1 SID-EL-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/3,130 ft/134 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glenns FerryGLFI1
At a cooperative observer's station/28.8 mi away/2,537 ft/459 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Idaho
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Mountain Home Air Force Base
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mountain Home AFBcommunity, 1 mi
- Mountain Homecity, 11 mi
- Bruneaucommunity, 12 mi
- Grand Viewcity, 12 mi
- Hammettcommunity, 22 mi
- Glenns Ferrycity, 30 mi
- Murphycommunity, 36 mi
- Melbacity, 40 mi
- Kunacity, 42 mi
- Boisecity, 43 mi
- Robie Creekcommunity, 44 mi
- Garden Citycity, 47 mi
Airports near Mountain Home Air Force Base
- Boise Air Terminal/Gowen FieldBOI, 40 mi
- Nampa Municipal AirportMAN, 50 mi
- Caldwell Executive AirportEUL, 56 mi
- Gooding Municipal AirportGNG, 57 mi
- Jerome County AirportJER, 75 mi
- Joslin Field Magic Valley Regional AirportTWF, 80 mi
- Friedman Memorial AirportSUN, 85 mi
- Stanley Airport2U7, 93 mi