Airports/New Jersey/Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport

Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport, New Jersey

Medium airport in Ocean County, New Jersey

55° 79°/54°

Overcast· Feels like 55°·Light air 1 mph ESE

Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 9 PM, the chance peaking at 84% around 1 AM.

Now. Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport is 55° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Light air from the east-southeast at 1 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is likely tomorrow (91%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

10Air quality

93%Humidity

94%Cloud

Now

1:00 AM

55feels55

Today

Oct 16

7954

84%

Sat

Oct 17

5445

91%

Sun

Oct 18

5636

Mon

Oct 19

6040

15%

Tue

Oct 20

6443

16%

Wed

Oct 21

6346

Thu

Oct 22

6145

12%

55°

79°54°

54°45°

56°36°

60°40°

64°43°

63°46°

61°45°

As of 1:00 AM in Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport, New Jersey.

Air quality

The air at Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport

Index 10, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southeast Burlington and Ocean Counties (NJ), 18 miles off.

10Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
Ozone10Good14 ppb5.5 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.

GoodModerate

52YesterdayOct 15
50TodayOct 16

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.08in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%

Visibility

How far you can see at Lakehurst Maxfield Field Airport, the next 44 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.

Airfield

Code: NEL
ICAO: KNEL
IATA: NEL
Field elevation: 101 ft
Serves: Lakehurst
Kind: Medium airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: NEL
Wind now: -

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
06 / 24	5,002 ft	150 ft	Asphalt	51° / 231°	-	-
15 / 33	5,001 ft	150 ft	Asphalt	141° / 321°	-	-

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Lakehurst Maxfield Field 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

Lakehurst NASNEL

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/102 ft/1 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

JacksonJACN4

At a river or reservoir gauge/4.9 mi away/112 ft/11 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Lakehurst 0.2 ENJ-OC-59

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/69 ft/32 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

ManasquanMSQN4