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Jake Arner Memorial Airport, Pennsylvania

Small airport in Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Air quality

The air at Jake Arner Memorial Airport

Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Lehigh Valley (PA), 16 miles off.

27Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good21.9 mi
  • Ozone27Good25 ppb20.5 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 50, good.

Smoke, the next 42 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Jake Arner Memorial 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 Jake Arner Memorial Airport, the next 42 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 9 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
22N
ICAO
-
IATA
-
Field elevation
534 ft
Serves
Lehighton
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
22N
Wind now
From 160° at 5 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:35

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
08 / 263,000 ft60 ftAsphalt69° / 249°0 mph head, on 085 mph from the right
08261,000 ftN160° 5 mph
Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

Measured here

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

Every hour from Lehighton (22N), Jake Arner Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

61 F at 9 PM; 66 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 50 F at its coolest, 6 AM.

Now
61F
9 PM
Highest
66F
3 PM
Lowest
50F
6 AM
Temperature and Dew point at Lehighton, temperature from 50.0 to 66.2, the latest 60.8; dew point from 44.0 to 54.8, the latest 46.4, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF40506070Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 46 F, the air 59% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 3 PM to 90% at 7 PM.

Dew point now
46F
9 PM
Humidity now
59%
Humidity, range
46 to 90%
Relative humidity at Lehighton, relative humidity from 46 to 90, the latest 59, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%406080100Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Wind

6 mph from the south southeast at 9 PM; at its strongest 6 mph, 9 PM, and no gust reported.

Now
6mph
from the south southeast
Strongest
6mph
9 PM
Highest gust
-
none reported
Wind at Lehighton, wind from 0 to 6, the latest 6, in miles an hour.WINDmph0246Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM
Wind direction at Lehighton, wind direction from 40 to 360, the latest 160, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°090180270360Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Pressure

30.14 inHg at 9 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.14inHg
9 PM
3 hours
-0.02inHg
steady
24 hours
+0.08inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Lehighton, pressure, altimeter from 30.06 to 30.26, the latest 30.14, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0030.1030.2030.30Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Visibility

Down to 1 miles at 2 PM; 10 miles or more now.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
1mi
2 PM
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at Lehighton, visibility from 1.3 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

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 2 PM; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.

Lowest base now
3,500ft
Lowest in 24 hours
700ft
2 PM
Hours with a base reported
17
Lowest cloud base at Lehighton, lowest cloud base from 700 to 8,000, the latest 3,500, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft02,0004,0006,0008,000Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMMVFRVFR

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
-
Hours with some
0

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

Lehighton: 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 Jake Arner Memorial 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

Lehighton22N

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/519 ft/15 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Bears HeadBHDP1

At a river or reservoir gauge/16.9 mi away/2,057 ft/1,523 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Lehighton 3.3 WSWPA-CB-18

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/600 ft/66 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

LehightonLGHP1

At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/591 ft/57 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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