Now. Farmington Regional Airport is 68° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 50° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Farmington Regional Airport, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Bonne Terre (MO), 10 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 0.84 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 4,323 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 23° / 203° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Farmington (FAM), Farmington Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
73 F at 11 AM Thursday; 73 F at its warmest, 10 AM Thursday, and 70 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 73 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 100% at 7 AM Thursday to 100% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
9 mph from the southwest at 11 AM Thursday; at its strongest 13 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.05 inHg at 11 AM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 11 AM Thursday; 2 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 4 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Farmington: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Farmington 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 now2 instruments
FarmingtonFAM
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/945 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Farmington RAWSFMRM7
A remote fire weather station/0.0 mi away/915 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Farmington 0.2 EMO-SF-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/912 ft/34 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FredericktownFRDM7
At a cooperative observer's station/15.2 mi away/768 ft/178 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.