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De Quincy Industrial Airpark, Louisiana

Small airport in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Air quality

The air at De Quincy Industrial Airpark

Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Lake Charles (LA), 16 miles off.

21Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good16.1 mi
  • Ozone18Good7 ppb16.1 mi
  • Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.4 ppb16.5 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at De Quincy Industrial Airpark

None in the last 24 hours; 0.70 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.70in

Visibility

How far you can see at De Quincy Industrial Airpark, the next 46 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
5R8
ICAO
-
IATA
-
Field elevation
81 ft
Serves
De Quincy
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
5R8
Wind now
Calm, read 16 Oct, 04:35

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
15 / 335,000 ft75 ftAsphalt157° / 337°CalmCalm
15332,000 ftN
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from De Quincy (5R8), De Quincy Industrial Airpark's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

71 F at 4 AM; 88 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.

Now
71F
4 AM
Highest
88F
2 PM Thursday
Lowest
68F
6 AM Thursday
Temperature and Dew point at De Quincy, temperature from 68.0 to 88.4, the latest 71.0; dew point from 59.3 to 66.8, the latest 66.5, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF50607080906 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 67 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 38% at 2 PM Thursday to 87% at 5 AM Thursday.

Dew point now
67F
4 AM
Humidity now
86%
Humidity, range
38 to 87%
Relative humidity at De Quincy, relative humidity from 38 to 87, the latest 86, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%204060801006 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

Calm at 4 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 23 mph at 5 PM Thursday.

Now
0mph
calm
Strongest
7mph
5 PM Thursday
Highest gust
23mph
5 PM Thursday
Wind and Gust at De Quincy, wind from 0 to 7, the latest 0; gust from 16 to 23, the latest 16, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph01020306 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMWINDGUST
Wind direction at De Quincy, wind direction from 60 to 330, the latest 330, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°0901802703606 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.07 inHg at 4 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.07inHg
4 AM
3 hours
-0.01inHg
steady
24 hours
+0.04inHg
Pressure, altimeter at De Quincy, pressure, altimeter from 29.99 to 30.10, the latest 30.07, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg29.9530.0030.0530.106 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

Down to 7 miles at 5 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
7mi
5 AM Thursday
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at De Quincy, visibility from 7.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.5106 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 2,600 ft at 11 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 16 of the hours.

Lowest base now
11,000ft
Lowest in 24 hours
2,600ft
11 AM Thursday
Hours with a base reported
16
Lowest cloud base at De Quincy, lowest cloud base from 2,600 to 12,000, the latest 11,000, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft2,5005,0007,50010,00012,5006 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMVFR

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

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

De Quincy: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest De Quincy Industrial Airpark, 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 now2 instruments

De Quincy5R8

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/90 ft/9 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Sabine Nwr RAWSHAKL1

A remote fire weather station/38.4 mi away/16 ft/65 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Sulphur 8.4 NNELA-CC-26

In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.7 mi away/23 ft/58 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

SulphurSULL1

At a cooperative observer's station/16.1 mi away/56 ft/25 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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