Airports/Massachusetts/Fitchburg Municipal Airport

Fitchburg Municipal Airport, Massachusetts

Small airport in Worcester County, Massachusetts

42° 61°/46°

Clear· Feels like 42°·Calm 0 mph SSE

Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 8 AM, the chance peaking at 81% around 10 AM.

Now. Fitchburg Municipal Airport is 42° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.

Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 43°, with some cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 70°, and the coolest Saturday, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (99%) and Saturday (54%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 29°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

26Air quality

92%Humidity

0%Cloud

Now

10:00 PM

42feels42

Today

Oct 15

6146

Fri

Oct 16

7039

99%

13mph

Sat

Oct 17

5039

54%

14mph

Sun

Oct 18

5629

Mon

Oct 19

5932

Tue

Oct 20

6436

Wed

Oct 21

6139

42°

61°46°

70°39°

50°39°

56°29°

59°32°

64°36°

61°39°

As of 10:00 PM in Fitchburg Municipal Airport, Massachusetts.

Air quality

The air at Fitchburg Municipal Airport

Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Worcester (MA), 16 miles off.

26Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good19.8 mi
Ozone24Good27 ppb20 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)13Good19.8 mi
Nitrogen dioxide18Good19 ppb19.8 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb19.8 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.5 ppm19.8 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.

GoodModerate

33YesterdayOct 14
45TodayOct 15
35FriOct 16
30SatOct 17

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Fitchburg Municipal Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.05in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%

Visibility

How far you can see at Fitchburg Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours

Fog: visibility falls to 0.7 miles Fri 8 PM, under a mile for 1 hour.

Airfield

Code: FIT
ICAO: KFIT
IATA: -
Field elevation: 348 ft
Serves: Fitchburg
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: FIT
Wind now: Calm, read 15 Oct, 21:52

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
14 / 32	5,001 ft	100 ft	Asphalt	129° / 309°	Calm	Calm

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Fitchburg Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

FitchburgFIT

At an airfield/0.2 mi away/348 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Harvard - Oxbow DevensOXBM3

At a river or reservoir gauge/7.8 mi away/252 ft/96 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Harvard Rest AreaMA016

Beside a road/8.3 mi away/328 ft/20 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Leominster 1.2 NNEMA-WR-14