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
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Pennsylvania/Jake Arner Memorial Airport
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 7 AM, the chance peaking at 63% around 6 PM.
Now. Jake Arner Memorial Airport is 59° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 53° by 2 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 77°, and the coolest Saturday, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (96%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Jake Arner Memorial Airport, Pennsylvania.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Lehigh Valley (PA), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 50, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 9 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 3,000 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 69° / 249° | 0 mph head, on 08 | 5 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Lehighton (22N), Jake Arner Memorial Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
61 F at 9 PM; 66 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 50 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 46 F, the air 59% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 3 PM to 90% at 7 PM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the south southeast at 9 PM; at its strongest 6 mph, 9 PM, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.14 inHg at 9 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.08 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 miles at 2 PM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 2 PM; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
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
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
I-81 S/B @ Exit 134 Delano Schuy PA US PADOTPA029
Beside a road/15.9 mi away/1,637 ft/1,103 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
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
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.