Temperature
66 F at 2 AM; 66 F at its warmest, 2 AM, and 52 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 66F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 66F
- 2 AM
- Lowest
- 52F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Bishop International Airport is 65° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the west-southwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 46° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Bishop International Airport, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Flint (MI), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.27 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 7,201 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 88° / 268° | 15 mph head, on 27 | 5 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 | 7,852 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 179° / 359° | 5 mph head, on 18 | 15 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Flint (FNT), Bishop International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
66 F at 2 AM; 66 F at its warmest, 2 AM, and 52 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 3 PM Thursday to 97% at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the west southwest at 2 AM; at its strongest 13 mph, 2 AM, with a gust of 32 mph at 2 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.65 inHg at 2 AM, falling 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.58 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 11 PM Thursday; 7 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.17 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.10 in, in the hour to 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Flint: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Bishop International Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
FlintFNT
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/764 ft/18 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
B-19MC122
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/755 ft/27 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fenton - Holy RAWSHRAM4
A remote fire weather station/11.0 mi away/889 ft/107 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Flint 2.4 WSWMI-GN-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/787 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FlintFLTM4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/712 ft/70 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
66 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.