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Norwood Memorial Airport, Massachusetts

Medium airport in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Air quality

The air at Norwood Memorial Airport

Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Norfolk (MA), 4 miles off.

20Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
  • Ozone20Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.

Smoke, the next 46 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Norwood Memorial Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Norwood Memorial Airport, the next 46 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 9 AM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
OWD
ICAO
KOWD
IATA
OWD
Field elevation
49 ft
Serves
Norwood
Kind
Medium airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
OWD
Wind now
Calm, read 15 Oct, 22:53

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
10 / 28 unlit3,995 ft75 ftAsphalt89° / 269°CalmCalm
17 / 354,007 ft100 ftAsphalt155° / 335°CalmCalm
102817351,000 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 Norwood Memorial (OWD), Norwood Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

42 F at 10 PM; 64 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 42 F at its coolest, 9 PM.

Now
42F
10 PM
Highest
64F
2 PM
Lowest
42F
9 PM
Temperature and Dew point at Norwood Memorial, temperature from 42.0 to 64.0, the latest 42.0; dew point from 32.0 to 52.0, the latest 40.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF3040506070Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMFREEZINGTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 40 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 30% at 2 PM to 93% at 12 AM.

Dew point now
40F
10 PM
Humidity now
93%
Humidity, range
30 to 93%
Relative humidity at Norwood Memorial, relative humidity from 30 to 93, the latest 93, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%20406080100Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Wind

Calm at 11 PM; at its strongest 12 mph, 9 AM, with a gust of 26 mph at 5 AM.

Now
0mph
calm
Strongest
12mph
9 AM
Highest gust
26mph
5 AM
Wind and Gust at Norwood Memorial, wind from 0 to 12, the latest 0; gust from 18 to 26, the latest 20, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph0102030Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Norwood Memorial, wind direction from 20 to 360, the latest 300, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°090180270360Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Pressure

30.19 inHg at 11 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.23 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.19inHg
11 PM
3 hours
-0.02inHg
steady
24 hours
+0.23inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Norwood Memorial, pressure, altimeter from 29.96 to 30.22, the latest 30.19, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg29.9030.0030.1030.2030.30Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Visibility

10 miles or more every hour.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
10+mi
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at Norwood Memorial, visibility from 10.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.510Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 3,600 ft at 8 AM; a base was reported in 8 of the hours.

Lowest base now
-
Lowest in 24 hours
3,600ft
8 AM
Hours with a base reported
8
Lowest cloud base at Norwood Memorial, lowest cloud base from 3,600 to 5,000, the latest 3,600, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft3,5004,0004,5005,000Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMVFR

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

Norwood Memorial: 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 Norwood Memorial Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.

measured now3 instruments

Norwood MemorialOWD

At an airfield/0.1 mi away/49 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Blue Hills Obs USCRNBHIM3

At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/620 ft/571 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

CantonMA011

Beside a road/3.8 mi away/164 ft/115 ft above here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Westwood 2.8 EMA-NF-37

In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/201 ft/152 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Blue Hill LCDBHOM3

At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/623 ft/574 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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