Temperature
41 F at 7 AM; 65 F at its warmest, 1 PM Friday, and 41 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 41F
- 7 AM
- Highest
- 65F
- 1 PM Friday
- Lowest
- 41F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Massachusetts/Pittsfield Municipal Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 54° after 45° today.
Now. Pittsfield Municipal Airport is 40° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 10:56 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Pittsfield Municipal Airport, Massachusetts.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Berkshire (MA), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 5,792 ft | 101 ft | Asphalt | 64° / 244° | 4 mph head, on 26 | 8 mph from the right |
| 14 / 32 | 3,147 ft | 76 ft | Asphalt | 123° / 303° | 9 mph head, on 32 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Pittsfield Muni (PSF), Pittsfield Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
41 F at 7 AM; 65 F at its warmest, 1 PM Friday, and 41 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 35 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 76% at 5 AM to 94% at 5 PM Friday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the northwest at 7 AM; at its strongest 16 mph, 8 AM Friday, with a gust of 35 mph at 7 PM Friday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.03 inHg at 7 AM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.19 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 5 PM Friday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 9 AM Friday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.38 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.19 in, in the hour to 6 PM Friday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Pittsfield Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Pittsfield 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
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,194 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hancock Rest AreaMA012
Beside a road/4.4 mi away/1,318 ft/130 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Stockbridge 2NWSTOM3
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/853 ft/335 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pittsfield AirportMA-BE-38
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,164 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lenox DaleLXDM3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/1,005 ft/183 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lenox Dale (LXDM3), 6.7 miles from here, read 9 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
17 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.