Fire Weather Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Fire Weather Watch is in force for Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport until 9 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 72° after 88° today.
Now. Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport is 68° and mostly clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:57 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 27 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport, Louisiana.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 159° / 339° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Abbeville (IYA), Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
71 F at 10 PM Thursday; 88 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 67 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 70 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 54% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
1 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 10 mph, 4 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.04 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 7 AM Thursday, under a mile for 1 hour; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,200 ft at 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 8 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Abbeville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial 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
AbbevilleIYA
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/16 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cade Farm - University Of Louisiana At LCADL1
On a college campus/15.0 mi away/36 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lafayette 13 SE53960
At a climate reference station/15.0 mi away/35 ft/19 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
FSA-Abbeville 2.0 ELA-VM-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/11 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AbbevilleABBL1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/26 ft/10 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.