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Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport, New York

Medium airport in Washington County, New York

Air quality

The air at Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport

Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Bennington (VT), 36 miles off.

17Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
  • Ozone12Good21 ppb22.7 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 26, good.

Smoke, the next 44 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 1.60 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
1.60in

Visibility

How far you can see at Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport, the next 44 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 6 AM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
GFL
ICAO
KGFL
IATA
GFL
Field elevation
328 ft
Serves
Glens Falls
Kind
Medium airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
GFL
Wind now
Calm, read 15 Oct, 23:53

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
01 / 195,000 ft150 ftAsphalt358° / 178°CalmCalm
12 / 303,999 ft100 ftAsphalt111° / 291°CalmCalm
011912302,000 ftN
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Glen Falls/Warren (GFL), Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

42 F at 12 AM; 57 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 7 PM Thursday.

Now
42F
12 AM
Highest
57F
3 PM Thursday
Lowest
39F
7 PM Thursday
Temperature and Dew point at Glen Falls/Warren, temperature from 39.0 to 57.0, the latest 42.0; dew point from 30.0 to 44.0, the latest 41.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF304050603 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16FREEZINGTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 41 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 5 PM Thursday to 96% at 12 AM.

Dew point now
41F
12 AM
Humidity now
96%
Humidity, range
40 to 96%
Relative humidity at Glen Falls/Warren, relative humidity from 40 to 96, the latest 96, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%204060801003 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 10 AM Thursday, with a gust of 21 mph at 9 AM Thursday.

Now
0mph
calm
Strongest
14mph
10 AM Thursday
Highest gust
21mph
9 AM Thursday
Wind and Gust at Glen Falls/Warren, wind from 0 to 14, the latest 0; gust from 21 to 21, the latest 21, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph01020303 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16WINDGUST
Wind direction at Glen Falls/Warren, wind direction from 10 to 360, the latest 70, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°0901802703603 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.06 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.

Now
30.06inHg
12 AM
3 hours
-0.08inHg
falling
24 hours
-0.04inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Glen Falls/Warren, pressure, altimeter from 30.06 to 30.27, the latest 30.06, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0030.1030.2030.303 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16

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
Visibility at Glen Falls/Warren, visibility from 10.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.5103 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16LIFRIFRMVFRVFR

How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 2,800 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 9 of the hours.

Lowest base now
-
Lowest in 24 hours
2,800ft
2 AM Thursday
Hours with a base reported
9
Lowest cloud base at Glen Falls/Warren, lowest cloud base from 2,800 to 11,000, the latest 11,000, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft2,5005,0007,50010,00012,5003 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16VFR

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

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

Glen Falls/Warren: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Floyd Bennett Memorial 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

Glen Falls/WarrenGFL

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/328 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Queensbury 1.9 ESENY-WR-9

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/360 ft/32 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Lake LuzerneLLZN6

At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/846 ft/518 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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