Temperature
51 F at 5 PM; 65 F at its warmest, 3 AM, and 51 F at its coolest, 2 PM.
- Now
- 51F
- 5 PM
- Highest
- 65F
- 3 AM
- Lowest
- 51F
- 2 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Livingston County Spencer J. Hardy Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Livingston County Spencer J. Hardy Airport is 51° and light drizzle at 5 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 8 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 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 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Livingston County Spencer J. Hardy Airport, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Flint (MI), 32 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 5,002 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 127° / 307° | 5 mph head, on 31 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Howell (OZW), Livingston County Spencer J. Hardy Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
51 F at 5 PM; 65 F at its warmest, 3 AM, and 51 F at its coolest, 2 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 41 F, the air 69% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 5 PM to 94% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the north at 5 PM; at its strongest 16 mph, 4 AM, with a gust of 30 mph at 5 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.02 inHg at 5 PM, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.11 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 11 PM Thursday; 9 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 11 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.13 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.04 in, in the hour to 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Howell: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Livingston County Spencer J. Hardy 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 now3 instruments
HowellOZW
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/961 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
B-17MC121
Beside a road/17.5 mi away/906 ft/56 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fenton - Holy RAWSHRAM4
A remote fire weather station/20.1 mi away/889 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Howell 3.3 WMI-LV-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/898 ft/64 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Waste Water PlantHOWM4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/906 ft/56 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.