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Montauk Airport, New York

Small airport in Suffolk County, New York

Air quality

The air at Montauk Airport

Index 15, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, New London-Groton (CT), 19 miles off.

15Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good20.6 mi
  • Coarse particles (PM10)6Good20.6 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 10, good.

Smoke, the next 41 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Montauk Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 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 Montauk Airport, the next 41 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 5 PM, under a mile for 5 hours.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
MTP
ICAO
KMTP
IATA
MTP
Field elevation
6 ft
Serves
Montauk
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
Yes
Its own instrument
MTP
Wind now
Variable at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 03:54

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
06 / 243,246 ft75 ftAsphalt47° / 227°--
06241,000 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 Montauk Airport (MTP), Montauk Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

61 F at 4 AM; 62 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 52 F at its coolest, 6 PM Thursday.

Now
61F
4 AM
Highest
62F
12 PM Thursday
Lowest
52F
6 PM Thursday
Temperature and Dew point at Montauk Airport, temperature from 52.0 to 62.0, the latest 61.0; dew point from 42.0 to 51.0, the latest 51.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF4045505560656 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 51 F, the air 70% saturated; the humidity ran from 48% at 1 PM Thursday to 77% at 9 PM Thursday.

Dew point now
51F
4 AM
Humidity now
70%
Humidity, range
48 to 77%
Relative humidity at Montauk Airport, relative humidity from 48 to 77, the latest 70, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%40506070806 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

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

Wind

6 mph at 4 AM; at its strongest 13 mph, 5 AM Thursday, with a gust of 22 mph at 5 AM Thursday.

Now
6mph
Strongest
13mph
5 AM Thursday
Highest gust
22mph
5 AM Thursday
Wind and Gust at Montauk Airport, wind from 0 to 13, the latest 6; gust from 16 to 22, the latest 18, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph01020306 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Montauk Airport, wind direction from 10 to 360, the latest 140, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°0901802703606 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

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

Pressure

30.04 inHg at 4 AM, falling 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.

Now
30.04inHg
4 AM
3 hours
-0.09inHg
falling
24 hours
-0.07inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Montauk Airport, pressure, altimeter from 30.04 to 30.22, the latest 30.04, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0030.0530.1030.1530.2030.256 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

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

Montauk Airport: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 3 instruments nearest Montauk Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.

measured now1 instrument

Montauk AirportMTP

At an airfield/0.3 mi away/20 ft/14 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Fishers Island 0.5 NENY-SF-114

In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.8 mi away/45 ft/39 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Orient PointOSPN6

At a cooperative observer's station/18.0 mi away/-17 ft/23 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at Orient Point (OSPN6), 18.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily

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