Temperature
70 F at 12 AM; 77 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 77F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 68F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Flora Municipal Airport, Illinois
Small airport in Clay County, Illinois71°
58°/49°
Overcast·
Feels like 71°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Now. Flora Municipal Airport is 71° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
88%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
71feels71
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5849
20%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5939
13mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6533
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7038
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7342
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7545
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7847
overcast
71°
58°49°
59°39°
65°33°
70°38°
73°42°
75°45°
78°47°
As of 1:00 AM in Flora Municipal Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Flora Municipal Airport
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Vincennes (IN), 54 miles off.
19Good
- Ozone19Good-
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Flora Municipal Airport
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.43in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 41%
Visibility
How far you can see at Flora Municipal Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- FOA
- ICAO
- KFOA
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 473 ft
- Serves
- Flora
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- FOA
- Wind now
- From 260° at 10 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 5,003 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 30° / 210° | 6 mph head, on 21 | 8 mph from the right |
| 15 / 33 unlit | 2,715 ft | 100 ft | GRE | 147° / 327° | 4 mph head, on 33 | 9 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Flora (FOA), Flora Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 66 F, the air 88% saturated; the humidity ran from 88% at 12 AM to 100% at 4 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 66F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 88%
- Humidity, range
- 88 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
13 mph from the northwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 13 mph, 12 AM, with a gust of 30 mph at 12 AM.
- Now
- 13mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 13mph
- 12 AM
- Highest gust
- 30mph
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.96 inHg at 12 AM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.96inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.05inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.12inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.5 miles at 8 AM Thursday, under a mile for 3 hours; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 0.5mi
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 3
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 6 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.31 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.27 in, in the hour to 2 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.31in
- Wettest hour
- 0.27in
- 2 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Flora: 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 Flora Municipal 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
FloraFOA
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/472 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
FloraFOAI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/490 ft/17 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US 50 at GreendaleMX9208
Beside a road/13.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Flora 0.2 WNWIL-CY-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/492 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FloraFORI2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.7 mi away/476 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Flora (FORI2), 1.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Flora Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Floracity, 2 mi
- Clay Cityvillage, 5 mi
- Louisvillevillage, 8 mi
- Sailor Springsvillage, 8 mi
- Xeniavillage, 10 mi
- Cisnevillage, 10 mi
- Johnsonvillevillage, 11 mi
- Noblevillage, 13 mi
- Iolavillage, 15 mi
- Jeffersonvillevillage, 16 mi
- Mount Erievillage, 16 mi
- Iukavillage, 18 mi
Airports near Flora Municipal Airport
- Olney Noble AirportOLY, 15 mi
- Fairfield Municipal AirportFWC, 20 mi
- Salem-Leckrone AirportSLO, 28 mi
- Effingham County Memorial Airport1H2, 28 mi
- Mount Vernon Outland AirportMVN, 32 mi
- Centralia Municipal AirportENL, 36 mi
- Mount Carmel Municipal AirportAJG, 39 mi
- Lawrenceville Vincennes International AirportLWV, 46 mi