Temperature
70 F at 9 PM; 82 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 67 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 70F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 82F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 67F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 22 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 79° today.
Now. Washington Regional Airport is 71° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. The dew point is 68°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Washington Regional Airport, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Saint Louis (MO), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Thu 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 33 | 5,002 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 154° / 334° | 5 mph head, on 33 | 17 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Washington (FYG), Washington Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
70 F at 9 PM; 82 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 67 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 70 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 4 PM to 100% at 10 PM Wednesday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
20 mph from the west northwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 20 mph, 9 PM, with a gust of 36 mph at 9 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.97 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.09 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 10 PM Wednesday; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 8 AM; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 8 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Washington: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Washington 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 now3 instruments
WashingtonFYG
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/480 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shaw Nature ReserveS2227
At a soil climate station/12.4 mi away/623 ft/135 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Gray Summit 1SE - Shaw NatureSNRM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 mi away/560 ft/72 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Washington 1.0 ESEMO-FR-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/516 ft/28 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WashingtonWHGM7
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/492 ft/4 ft above 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.