Temperature
40 F at 1 AM; 72 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 40F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 72F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 31F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada
Medium airport in Churchill County, Nevada42°
79°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Light air 2 mph WSW
Now. Fallon Naval Air Station is 42° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 79°, and the coolest Thursday, near 64°. Rain is possible Tuesday (41%), Wednesday (48%) and Thursday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:14 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
55%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
42feels42
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7933
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
7940
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7941
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7841
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6942
41%
Wed
Oct 21
6541
48%
Thu
Oct 22
6439
35%
42°
79°33°
79°40°
79°41°
78°41°
69°42°
65°41°
64°39°
As of 2:00 AM in Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Fallon Naval Air Station
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Fallon (NV), 6 miles off.
23Good
- Ozone23Good23 ppb5.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fallon Naval Air Station
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 Fallon Naval Air Station, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- NFL
- ICAO
- KNFL
- IATA
- NFL
- Field elevation
- 3,934 ft
- Serves
- Fallon
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- NFL
- Wind now
- From 140° at 3 mph, read 16 Oct, 01:57
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 7,003 ft | 152 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 88° / 268° | 2 mph head, on 07 | 2 mph from the right |
| 13L / 31R | 11,076 ft | 200 ft | Concrete | 146° / 326° | 3 mph head, on 13L | None |
| 13R / 31L | 14,001 ft | 201 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 146° / 326° | 3 mph head, on 13R | None |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Fallon NAS (NFL), Fallon Naval Air Station's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 24 F, the air 52% saturated; the humidity ran from 20% at 3 PM Thursday to 59% at 5 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 24F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 52%
- Humidity, range
- 20 to 59%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
3 mph from the southeast at 1 AM; at its strongest 9 mph, 8 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 3mph
- from the southeast
- Strongest
- 9mph
- 8 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.44 inHg at 1 AM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.44inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.04inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.05inHg
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
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
Fallon NAS: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fallon Naval Air Station, 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
Fallon NASNFL
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,934 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/10.8 mi away/4,003 ft/69 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Dead Camel RAWSDEDN2
A remote fire weather station/16.8 mi away/4,557 ft/623 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fallon 2.1 SSENV-CH-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/3,968 ft/34 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
On a farm or research station/5.1 mi away/3,960 ft/26 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nevada
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Fallon Naval Air Station
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fallon Stationcommunity, 2 mi
- Falloncity, 6 mi
- Silver Springscommunity, 28 mi
- Fernleycity, 31 mi
- Schurzcommunity, 32 mi
- Wadsworthcommunity, 35 mi
- Stagecoachcommunity, 36 mi
- Yeringtoncity, 39 mi
- Nixoncommunity, 45 mi
- Daytoncommunity, 47 mi
- Virginia Citycommunity, 51 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 51 mi
Airports near Fallon Naval Air Station
- Derby FieldLOL, 45 mi
- Reno Tahoe International AirportRNO, 57 mi
- Carson AirportCXP, 57 mi
- Hawthorne Industrial AirportHTH, 60 mi
- Minden-Tahoe AirportMEV, 63 mi
- Reno-Stead AirportRTS, 65 mi
- Austin AirportTMT, 80 mi
- Winnemucca Municipal AirportWMC, 113 mi