Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 77° today.
Now. Madras Municipal Airport is 43° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 10 hours 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Madras Municipal Airport, Oregon.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Madras (OR), 3 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 56, moderate, Fri 9 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 2,701 ft | 50 ft | Asphalt | 56° / 236° | 0 mph head, on 04 | 3 mph from the right |
| 16 / 34 | 5,091 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 3 mph head, on 16 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Madras City (S33), Madras Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
50 F at 8 PM Thursday; 70 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 34 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 36 F, the air 58% saturated; the humidity ran from 29% at 4 PM Thursday to 93% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the northwest at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 10 mph, 7 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.45 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 8 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Madras City: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Madras Municipal 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
Madras CityS33
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,416 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Madras US97 at US26 MP92.08OD175
Beside a road/2.5 mi away/2,247 ft/190 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
A remote fire weather station/8.9 mi away/1,614 ft/823 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Madras 6.6 NNWOR-JF-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/2,386 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pelton DamPELO3
At a dam/6.1 mi away/1,509 ft/928 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.