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Grants Pass Airport, Oregon

Small airport in Josephine County, Oregon

Air quality

The air at Grants Pass Airport

Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Grants Pass (OR), 6 miles off.

34Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good5.7 mi

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 25, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Grants Pass Airport

None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.00in

Visibility

How far you can see at Grants Pass Airport, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
3S8
ICAO
-
IATA
GTP
Field elevation
1,126 ft
Serves
Grants Pass
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
3S8
Wind now
Calm, read 15 Oct, 20:55

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
12 / 303,999 ft75 ftAsphalt139° / 319°CalmCalm
12301,000 ftN
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Grants Pass (3S8), Grants Pass Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

61 F at 8 PM; 84 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 40 F at its coolest, 7 AM.

Now
61F
8 PM
Highest
84F
4 PM
Lowest
40F
7 AM
Temperature and Dew point at Grants Pass, temperature from 39.8 to 84.2, the latest 60.8; dew point from 36.2 to 41.0, the latest 39.2, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF20406080100Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMFREEZINGTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 39 F, the air 45% saturated; the humidity ran from 19% at 4 PM to 87% at 7 AM.

Dew point now
39F
8 PM
Humidity now
45%
Humidity, range
19 to 87%
Relative humidity at Grants Pass, relative humidity from 19 to 87, the latest 45, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%020406080100Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

Calm at 8 PM; at its strongest 1 mph, 4 PM, and no gust reported.

Now
0mph
calm
Strongest
1mph
4 PM
Highest gust
-
none reported
Wind at Grants Pass, wind from 0 to 1, the latest 0, in miles an hour.WINDmph00.511.5Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.23 inHg at 8 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.

Now
30.23inHg
8 PM
3 hours
+0.02inHg
steady
24 hours
-0.04inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Grants Pass, pressure, altimeter from 30.21 to 30.35, the latest 30.23, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.2030.2530.3030.35Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

10 miles or more every hour.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
10+mi
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at Grants Pass, visibility from 10.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.510Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020

Precipitation

None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Wettest hour
-
Hours with some
0

How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002

Grants Pass: 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 Grants Pass 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 now3 instruments

Grants Pass3S8

At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,109 ft/17 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Merlin RAWSMLFO3

A remote fire weather station/1.2 mi away/1,171 ft/45 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Grants Pass 7.6 NWOR-JS-30

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/1,005 ft/121 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Grants PassGPSO3

At a cooperative observer's station/6.8 mi away/938 ft/188 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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