Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 6 AM, the chance peaking at 85% around 8 AM.
Now. Schenectady County Airport is 46° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 47°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:57 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Schenectady County Airport, New York.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Upper Hudson Valley Region (NY), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 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 4 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 7,001 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 26° / 206° | - | - |
| 10 / 28 | 4,850 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 88° / 268° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Schenectady Airport (SCH), Schenectady County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 8 PM Thursday; 63 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 45 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 36 F, the air 70% saturated; the humidity ran from 27% at 3 PM Thursday to 87% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 8 mph, 9 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.17 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.08 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 3,000 ft at 9 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 7 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
Schenectady Airport: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Schenectady County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/377 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Albany Pine BushAPBN6
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.4 mi away/289 ft/89 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Schenectady 2.4 NNENY-SC-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/296 ft/82 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hudson River @ Green IslandTRYN6
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/49 ft/329 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hudson River @ Green Island (TRYN6), 12.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.