Temperature
51 F at 5 PM; 73 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 51 F at its coolest, 5 PM.
- Now
- 51F
- 5 PM
- Highest
- 73F
- 12 AM
- Lowest
- 51F
- 5 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wilmington Airpark until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 63° today.
Now. Wilmington Airpark is 52° and light rain at 5 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Wilmington Airpark, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Dayton (OH), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 41, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 2 PM, lowest 3 miles Sat 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04L / 22R | 10,701 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 37° / 217° | 7 mph head, on 22R | 14 mph from the right |
| 04R / 22L | 9,000 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 37° / 217° | 7 mph head, on 22L | 14 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Wilmington (ILN), Wilmington Airpark's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
51 F at 5 PM; 73 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 51 F at its coolest, 5 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 49 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 71% at 4 AM to 97% at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the west northwest at 5 PM; at its strongest 15 mph, 4 AM, with a gust of 29 mph at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.04 inHg at 5 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 8 AM; 4 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 10 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.22 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.06 in, in the hour to 8 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Wilmington: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Wilmington Airpark, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WilmingtonILN
At an airfield/1.7 mi away/1,056 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/1,071 ft/6 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AmeliaAMEO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.2 mi away/877 ft/200 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wilmington NWSILNO1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.7 mi away/1,054 ft/23 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Wilmington 1.2 SWOH-CN-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/1,034 ft/43 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Wilmington NWS (ILNO1), 1.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.