Temperature
67 F at 8 PM; 81 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 67 F at its coolest, 8 PM.
- Now
- 67F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 81F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 67F
- 8 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Mc Alester Regional Airport, Oklahoma
Medium airport in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma67°
83°/68°
Overcast·
Feels like 67°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 21 degrees cooler: a high of 62° after 83° today.
Now. Mc Alester Regional Airport is 67° and overcast at 8 PM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 10:04 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
84%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
67feels67
23%
15mph
Today
Oct 15
8368
84%
Fri
Oct 16
6249
24%
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6442
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6940
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7343
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7848
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
8253
overcast
67°
83°68°
62°49°
64°42°
69°40°
73°43°
78°48°
82°53°
As of 8:00 PM in Mc Alester Regional Airport, Oklahoma.
Air quality
The air at Mc Alester Regional Airport
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, McAlester (OK), 4 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good2 mi
- Ozone23Good21 ppb2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 14
- 30TodayOct 15
- 30FriOct 16
- 40SatOct 17
- 50SunOct 18
- 50MonOct 19
- 50TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mc Alester Regional Airport
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.35in
- Last 3 days
- 0.87in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 40%
Visibility
How far you can see at Mc Alester Regional Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MLC
- ICAO
- KMLC
- IATA
- MLC
- Field elevation
- 770 ft
- Serves
- Mc Alester
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MLC
- Wind now
- From 330° at 18 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:27
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 unlit | 5,602 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 20° / 200° | 12 mph head, on 02 | 14 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Mc Alester Regional (MLC), Mc Alester Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 62 F, the air 84% saturated; the humidity ran from 65% at 4 PM to 100% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 62F
- 8 PM
- Humidity now
- 84%
- Humidity, range
- 65 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
15 mph from the north northwest at 8 PM; at its strongest 15 mph, 8 PM, with a gust of 32 mph at 12 AM.
- Now
- 15mph
- from the north northwest
- Strongest
- 15mph
- 8 PM
- Highest gust
- 32mph
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.14 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.13 inHg over 3 hours; 0.17 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.14inHg
- 8 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.13inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.17inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 4 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 4 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 7 AM; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 1,400ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 400ft
- 7 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- 0.00in
- 9 AM
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Mc Alester Regional: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Mc Alester 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/771 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Jack Fork CR 3 N Sardis LakeCYDO2
At a river or reservoir gauge/30.2 mi away/633 ft/137 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-40 & HenryettaI40ST240
Beside a road/39.4 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mcalester 0.1 SWOK-PG-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/725 ft/45 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DaisyDAIO2
At a cooperative observer's station/24.2 mi away/771 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Daisy (DAIO2), 24.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Oklahoma
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Mc Alester Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Mc Alester Regional Airport
- Stigler Regional AirportGZL, 48 mi
- Ada Regional AirportADH, 51 mi
- Okmulgee Regional AirportOKM, 55 mi
- Seminole Municipal AirportSRE, 57 mi
- Muskogee-Davis Regional AirportMKO, 58 mi
- Stan Stamper Municipal AirportHHW, 60 mi
- Robert S Kerr AirportRKR, 67 mi
- Sallisaw Municipal AirportJSV, 67 mi