Temperature
74 F at 10 PM; 83 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 68 F at its coolest, 11 PM Wednesday.
- Now
- 74F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 83F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 68F
- 11 PM Wednesday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Fairfield Municipal Airport, Illinois
Small airport in Wayne County, Illinois73°
84°/66°
Light rain·
Feels like 73°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 25 degrees cooler: a high of 59° after 84° today.
Now. Fairfield Municipal Airport is 73° and light rain at 10 PM. The dew point is 70°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the west-southwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 51° by 8 AM, under cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
54Air quality
92%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
73feels73
34%
Today
Oct 15
8466
63%
12mph
Fri
Oct 16
5951
20%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
6040
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6634
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7039
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7343
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7646
overcast
73°
84°66°
59°51°
60°40°
66°34°
70°39°
73°43°
76°46°
As of 10:00 PM in Fairfield Municipal Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Fairfield Municipal Airport
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Evansville (IN), 52 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)54Moderate-
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fairfield Municipal Airport
0.33 in in the last 24 hours, 1.60 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.33in
- Last 3 days
- 1.60in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 21%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fairfield Municipal Airport, the next 46 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
- FWC
- ICAO
- KFWC
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 436 ft
- Serves
- Fairfield
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- FWC
- Wind now
- From 210° at 10 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 4,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 91° / 271° | 5 mph head, on 27 | 9 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 | 1,999 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 181° / 1° | 9 mph head, on 18 | 5 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Fairfield (FWC), Fairfield Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 69 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 72% at 4 PM to 99% at 3 AM.
- Dew point now
- 69F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 86%
- Humidity, range
- 72 to 99%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
10 mph from the south southwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 12 mph, 2 PM, with a gust of 16 mph at 2 PM.
- Now
- 10mph
- from the south southwest
- Strongest
- 12mph
- 2 PM
- Highest gust
- 16mph
- 2 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.93 inHg at 10 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.13 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.93inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.13inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.3 miles at 5 AM, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 0.3mi
- 5 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 2
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 11 PM Wednesday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 7,500ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 200ft
- 11 PM Wednesday
- Hours with a base reported
- 24
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.16 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.13 in, in the hour to 5 PM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.16in
- Wettest hour
- 0.13in
- 5 PM
- Hours with some
- 3
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
What is measuring near here
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 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
FairfieldFWC
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/436 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
FloraFOAI2
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.9 mi away/490 ft/54 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US 50 at GreendaleMX9208
Beside a road/23.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fairfield 1.3 EIL-WY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/465 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FairfieldFFDI2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 mi away/486 ft/50 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 Fairfield (FFDI2), 5.2 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 Fairfield Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fairfieldcity, 3 mi
- Jeffersonvillevillage, 4 mi
- Simsvillage, 7 mi
- Cisnevillage, 9 mi
- Mill Shoalsvillage, 10 mi
- Wayne Cityvillage, 10 mi
- Golden Gatevillage, 11 mi
- Johnsonvillevillage, 12 mi
- Burnt Prairievillage, 12 mi
- Keenesvillage, 13 mi
- Belle Prairie Citytown, 13 mi
- Mount Erievillage, 14 mi
Airports near Fairfield Municipal Airport
- Flora Municipal AirportFOA, 20 mi
- Mount Vernon Outland AirportMVN, 25 mi
- Olney Noble AirportOLY, 27 mi
- Salem-Leckrone AirportSLO, 35 mi
- Centralia Municipal AirportENL, 38 mi
- Harrisburg-Raleigh AirportHSB, 40 mi
- Mount Carmel Municipal AirportAJG, 40 mi
- Effingham County Memorial Airport1H2, 48 mi