Temperature
32 F at 12 PM; 46 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 30 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 32F
- 12 PM
- Highest
- 46F
- 1 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 30F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Snow is likely this afternoon, from about 12 PM (100%).
Now. Northern Aroostook Regional Airport is 33° and light snow at 12 PM. With the wind it feels like 23°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southeast at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 7 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, with some cloud. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 54°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 37°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:44 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:12 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 10 hours 52 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Northern Aroostook Regional Airport, Maine.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.3 miles Fri 12 PM, under a mile for 3 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 4,600 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 115° / 295° | 13 mph head, on 14 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Frenchville (FVE), Northern Aroostook Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
32 F at 12 PM; 46 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 30 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 31 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 47% at 2 PM Thursday to 96% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the east southeast at 12 PM; at its strongest 20 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 36 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.75 inHg at 12 PM, falling 0.16 inHg over 3 hours; 0.31 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.2 miles at 10 AM, under a mile for 3 hours; 1 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 7 AM; a base was reported in 12 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.17 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.11 in, in the hour to 10 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Frenchville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Northern Aroostook Regional 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 now4 instruments
FrenchvilleFVE
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/988 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
St John River AT Fort KentFTKM1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.8 mi away/489 ft/499 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Soucey HillME007
Beside a road/27.3 mi away/1,186 ft/198 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Limestone 4 NNW94645
At a climate reference station/30.3 mi away/737 ft/251 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Madawaska 0.9 NNWME-AR-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/605 ft/383 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Kent CoopFISM1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.4 mi away/653 ft/335 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Kent Coop (FISM1), 14.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.