Now. Alva Regional Airport is 53° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:03 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Alva Regional Airport, Oklahoma.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Woodward (OK), 40 miles off.
Highest 70, moderate, Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 unlit | 1,390 ft | 170 ft | GRE | 90° / 270° | 3 mph head, on 27 | 9 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 5,001 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 9 mph head, on 36 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Alva Rgnl Airport (AVK), Alva Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
55 F at 10 PM Thursday; 68 F at its warmest, 1 AM Thursday, and 55 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 50 F, the air 82% saturated; the humidity ran from 72% at 5 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 31 mph at 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.37 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 9 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 300 ft at 9 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Alva Rgnl Airport: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Alva Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,473 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alva 0.8 WOK-WD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/1,444 ft/30 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AlvaALVO2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/1,325 ft/149 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Alva (ALVO2), 2.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:12. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.