Temperature
65 F at 1 PM; 65 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 48 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 65F
- 1 PM
- Highest
- 65F
- 1 PM
- Lowest
- 48F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 1 PM (91%).
Now. Griffiss International Airport is 65° and light rain at 1 PM. The dew point is 64°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 46°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 PM in Griffiss International Airport, New York.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, Central New York Region (NY), 56 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.51 in in the last 24 hours, 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 33 | 11,820 ft | 200 ft | Concrete | 134° / 314° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Griffiss AFB / Rome (RME), Griffiss International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
65 F at 1 PM; 65 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 48 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 64 F, the air 95% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 4 PM Thursday to 96% at 5 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the east southeast at 1 PM; at its strongest 12 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 20 mph at 11 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.61 inHg at 1 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.61 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 11 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 1 PM; a base was reported in 16 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.54 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.16 in, in the hour to 4 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Griffiss AFB / Rome: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Griffiss International Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.9 mi away/471 ft/33 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mohawk River AT Delta DamDDMN6
At a dam/2.9 mi away/564 ft/60 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rome 2.3 ENY-OD-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/470 ft/34 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Westmoreland 4 NWSTN6
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/554 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Westmoreland 4 N (WSTN6), 5.8 miles from here, read 16 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.