Temperature
59 F at 2 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 49 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 59F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 60F
- 12 AM
- Lowest
- 49F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 79% around 2 PM.
Now. Elmira Corning Regional Airport is 58° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 11 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 47°. Rain is likely tomorrow (63%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Elmira Corning Regional Airport, New York.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Central New York Region (NY), 52 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 unlit | 2,016 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 51° / 231° | 8 mph head, on 23 | 7 mph from the left |
| 06 / 24 | 8,001 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 50° / 230° | 8 mph head, on 24 | 6 mph from the left |
| 10 / 28 | 5,404 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 89° / 269° | 2 mph head, on 28 | 10 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Elmira / Corning (ELM), Elmira Corning Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
59 F at 2 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 49 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 54 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 62% at 4 PM Thursday to 91% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the south at 2 AM; at its strongest 12 mph, 2 AM, with a gust of 26 mph at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.87 inHg at 2 AM, falling 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.35 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 9 miles at 4 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Elmira / Corning: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Elmira Corning Regional Airport, 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/942 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ithaca 13EITCN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/37.4 mi away/1,368 ft/414 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ithaca 13 E64758
At a climate reference station/38.5 mi away/1,228 ft/274 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Big Flats 1.1 WNWNY-CM-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/890 ft/64 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElmiraEMRN6
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/942 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Elmira (EMRN6), 5.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
29 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.