Temperature
62 F at 8 PM; 72 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 42 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 62F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 72F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 42F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Hawthorne Industrial Airport is 55° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 Saturday, near 76°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 57°. Rain is likely Tuesday (54%) and Wednesday (52%). The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Hawthorne Industrial Airport, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Mono Lake (CA), 37 miles off.
Yesterday measured 11, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 6,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 116° / 296° | 5 mph head, on 10 | 6 mph from the right |
| 15 / 33 unlit | 3,250 ft | 130 ft | GRE | 166° / 346° | 8 mph head, on 15 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Hawthorne (HTH), Hawthorne Industrial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
62 F at 8 PM; 72 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 42 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 28 F, the air 28% saturated; the humidity ran from 17% at 4 PM to 51% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the north northwest at 8 PM; at its strongest 10 mph, 7 PM, with a gust of 13 mph at 2 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.43 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 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
Hawthorne: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Hawthorne Industrial Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
HawthorneHTH
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/4,209 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Walker LakeWLKNV
Beside a road/5.0 mi away/4,104 ft/111 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily1 instrument
HawthorneHTHN2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/4,396 ft/181 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hawthorne (HTHN2), 1.9 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.