Now. Ely Airport Yelland Field is 40° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. 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 tomorrow, near 66°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 52°. Rain is likely Tuesday (69%), Wednesday (61%) and Thursday (55%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:01 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ely Airport Yelland Field, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Great Basin National Park (NV), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 4,825 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 141° / 321° | 0 mph head, on 12 | 13 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 | 6,017 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 194° / 14° | 11 mph head, on 36 | 8 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Ely/Yelland Fld (ELY), Ely Airport Yelland Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 8 PM Thursday; 59 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 28 F, the air 47% saturated; the humidity ran from 39% at 4 PM Thursday to 89% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the north northeast at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 22 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 33 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.55 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.17 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Ely/Yelland Fld: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Ely Airport Yelland Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/6,263 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Steptoe Valley WMASTVN2
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/6,483 ft/224 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Baker 5 W53138
At a climate reference station/39.8 mi away/6,617 ft/358 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ely 3.9 NENV-WP-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/6,259 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ely Snow 12zTELN2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/6,527 ft/268 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.