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
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 6 AM, the chance peaking at 91% around 7 AM.
Now. Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport is 41° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 46°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:53 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. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport, New York.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Bennington (VT), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
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.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 5,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 358° / 178° | Calm | Calm |
| 12 / 30 | 3,999 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 111° / 291° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Glen Falls/Warren (GFL), Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
42 F at 12 AM; 57 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 41 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 5 PM Thursday to 96% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 12 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 10 AM Thursday, with a gust of 21 mph at 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.06 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower 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
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,800 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 9 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
Glen Falls/Warren: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/328 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Saratoga National Historical Park RAWSSHPN6
A remote fire weather station/23.1 mi away/358 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, 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
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Snow on the ground
29 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.