Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 4 AM, the chance peaking at 100% around 5 AM.
Now. Adirondack Regional Airport is 40° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° by 7 AM, under cloud. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 60°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 37°. Rain is likely tomorrow (78%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 22°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:51 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Adirondack Regional Airport, New York.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Adirondacks Region (NY), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.40 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,573 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 35° / 215° | 5 mph head, on 05 | 3 mph from the right |
| 09 / 27 | 3,997 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 79° / 259° | 6 mph head, on 09 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Saranac Lake/Adiron (SLK), Adirondack Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
40 F at 11 PM Thursday; 53 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 35 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 35 F, the air 82% saturated; the humidity ran from 41% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
1 mph from the east northeast at 12 AM; at its strongest 6 mph, 12 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 2 AM Thursday; 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 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 12 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
Saranac Lake/Adiron: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Adirondack Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,663 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.2 mi away/1,857 ft/194 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gabriels 1.3 SENY-FK-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,688 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake Placid 2 SLPLN6
At a cooperative observer's station/14.6 mi away/1,998 ft/335 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lake Placid 2 S (LPLN6), 14.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:30. 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.