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Lafayette Regional Airport, Louisiana

Medium airport in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Air quality

The air at Lafayette Regional Airport

Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Lafayette (LA), 3 miles off.

28Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good3.3 mi
  • Ozone9Good1 ppb3.3 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Lafayette Regional Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Lafayette Regional Airport, the next 46 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
LFT
ICAO
KLFT
IATA
LFT
Field elevation
42 ft
Serves
Lafayette
Kind
Medium airport
Scheduled service
Yes
Its own instrument
LFT
Wind now
From 40° at 5 mph, read 16 Oct, 03:53

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
04L / 22R4,098 ft75 ftAsphalt39° / 219°5 mph head, on 04LNone
04R / 22L8,000 ft150 ftAsphalt39° / 219°5 mph head, on 04RNone
11 / 29 unlit5,403 ft150 ftAsphalt110° / 290°2 mph head, on 115 mph from the left
04L22R04R22L11292,500 ftN40° 5 mph
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

Measured here

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

Every hour from Lafayette (LFT), Lafayette Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

69 F at 3 AM; 86 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.

Now
69F
3 AM
Highest
86F
12 PM Thursday
Lowest
68F
5 AM Thursday
Temperature and Dew point at Lafayette, temperature from 68.0 to 86.0, the latest 69.0; dew point from 68.0 to 72.0, the latest 68.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF6570758085906 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 68 F, the air 97% saturated; the humidity ran from 55% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.

Dew point now
68F
3 AM
Humidity now
97%
Humidity, range
55 to 100%
Relative humidity at Lafayette, relative humidity from 55 to 100, the latest 97, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%4060801006 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

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

Wind

2 mph from the east northeast at 4 AM; at its strongest 5 mph, 2 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.

Now
2mph
from the east northeast
Strongest
5mph
2 PM Thursday
Highest gust
-
none reported
Wind at Lafayette, wind from 0 to 5, the latest 2, in miles an hour.WINDmph02466 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM
Wind direction at Lafayette, wind direction from 10 to 200, the latest 70, 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

30.06 inHg at 4 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.06inHg
4 AM
3 hours
-0.01inHg
steady
24 hours
+0.01inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Lafayette, pressure, altimeter from 30.00 to 30.09, the latest 30.06, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0030.0230.0530.0730.106 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

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

Visibility

Down to 0.1 miles at 5 AM Thursday, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
0.1mi
5 AM Thursday
Hours under a mile
2
Visibility at Lafayette, visibility from 0.1 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 100 ft at 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.

Lowest base now
11,000ft
Lowest in 24 hours
100ft
6 AM Thursday
Hours with a base reported
17
Lowest cloud base at Lafayette, lowest cloud base from 100 to 11,000, the latest 11,000, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft05,00010,00015,0006 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMMVFRVFR

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

Lafayette: 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 Lafayette Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

LafayetteLFT

At an airfield/0.5 mi away/48 ft/6 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Lafayette 13 SE53960

At a climate reference station/10.6 mi away/35 ft/7 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Lafayette 2.9 ENELA-LY-10

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/41 ft/1 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

CarencroCRCL1

At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/49 ft/7 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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