Temperature
64 F at 12 AM; 79 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 64F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 79F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 61F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Carolina/Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport
Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport, North Carolina
Small airport in Halifax County, North Carolina64°
86°/61°
Overcast·
Feels like 64°·Calm 0 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 3 AM (81%).
Now. Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport is 64° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 8 AM, with some cloud. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. Rain is likely tomorrow (91%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 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 day is 11 hours 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
45Air quality
100%Humidity
90%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
64feels64
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8661
36%
12mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5750
91%
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5840
26%
15mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6243
16%
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
6746
13%
Wed
Oct 21
6848
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6749
12%
64°
86°61°
57°50°
58°40°
62°43°
67°46°
68°48°
67°49°
As of 12:00 AM in Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport, North Carolina.
Air quality
The air at Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport
Index 45, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Northampton County (NC), 15 miles off.
45Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)45Good12.6 mi
- Ozone-25 ppb23.8 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.5 ppb12.6 mi
The days ahead
Highest 58, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 55, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 55YesterdayOct 14
- 58TodayOct 16
- 35SatOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 28 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport, the next 45 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 7 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- IXA
- ICAO
- KIXA
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 145 ft
- Serves
- Halifax
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- IXA
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 00:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 unlit | 5,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 9° / 189° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Roanoke Rapids (IXA), Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 64 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 79% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 64F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 79 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 11 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 11mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 17mph
- 5 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.09 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.09inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.03inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- +0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 900 ft at 10 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 13 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 900ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 900ft
- 10 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 13
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Roanoke Rapids: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Halifax-Northampton 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/144 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fire RAWS 6FWRN7
A remote fire weather station/17.2 mi away/115 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Roanoke Rapids 1.2 NWNC-HL-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/182 ft/37 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LOWER ROANOKE RIVER 1 NNW Roanoke Rapids DamRAPN7
At a dam/10.5 mi away/92 ft/53 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Carolina
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Halifaxtown, 2 mi
- South Weldoncommunity, 6 mi
- Weldontown, 7 mi
- Roanoke Rapidscity, 9 mi
- South Rosemarycommunity, 9 mi
- Garysburgtown, 9 mi
- Enfieldtown, 11 mi
- Gastontown, 12 mi
- Jacksontown, 13 mi
- Seaboardtown, 15 mi
- Whitakerstown, 16 mi
- Littletontown, 17 mi
Airports near Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport
- Tri-County Airport at Henry Joyner FieldASJ, 26 mi
- Tarboro Edgecombe AirportETC, 28 mi
- Rocky Mount Wilson Regional AirportRWI, 36 mi
- Martin County AirportMCZ, 41 mi
- Triangle North Executive AirportLHZ, 44 mi
- Henderson Oxford AirportHNZ, 50 mi
- Pitt-Greenville AirportPGV, 50 mi
- Warren FieldOCW, 62 mi