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Pennridge Airport, Pennsylvania

Small airport in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Air quality

The air at Pennridge Airport

Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Lehigh Valley (PA), 22 miles off.

21Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good16.7 mi
  • Ozone21Good20 ppb16.7 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.

Smoke, the next 43 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Pennridge Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Last 3 days
0.05in

Visibility

How far you can see at Pennridge Airport, the next 43 hours

Fog: visibility falls to 0.8 miles Fri 7 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
CKZ
ICAO
KCKZ
IATA
-
Field elevation
568 ft
Serves
Perkasie
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
CKZ
Wind now
Variable at 5 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:55

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
08 / 264,211 ft100 ftAsphalt70° / 250°--
08261,000 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 Perkasie (CKZ), Pennridge Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

57 F at 12 AM; 66 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 49 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.

Now
57F
12 AM
Highest
66F
3 PM Thursday
Lowest
49F
7 AM Thursday
Temperature and Dew point at Perkasie, temperature from 48.8 to 66.2, the latest 57.2; dew point from 48.2 to 54.2, the latest 54.2, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF4550556065703 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16TEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 54 F, the air 90% saturated; the humidity ran from 54% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 7 AM Thursday.

Dew point now
54F
12 AM
Humidity now
90%
Humidity, range
54 to 100%
Relative humidity at Perkasie, relative humidity from 54 to 100, the latest 90, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%4060801003 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16

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

Wind

3 mph at 12 AM; at its strongest 10 mph, 9 AM Thursday, with a gust of 15 mph at 9 AM Thursday.

Now
3mph
Strongest
10mph
9 AM Thursday
Highest gust
15mph
9 AM Thursday
Wind and Gust at Perkasie, wind from 0 to 10, the latest 3; gust from 12 to 15, the latest 12, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph0510153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16WINDGUST
Wind direction at Perkasie, wind direction from 10 to 360, the latest 140, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°0901802703603 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16

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

Pressure

30.09 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower than a day before.

Now
30.09inHg
12 AM
3 hours
-0.06inHg
falling
24 hours
-0.01inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Perkasie, pressure, altimeter from 30.09 to 30.24, the latest 30.09, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.0530.1030.1530.2030.253 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16

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

Visibility

Down to 9 miles at 12 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
9mi
12 PM Thursday
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at Perkasie, visibility from 9.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.5103 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16LIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 1,900 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 8 of the hours.

Lowest base now
-
Lowest in 24 hours
1,900ft
12 AM
Hours with a base reported
8
Lowest cloud base at Perkasie, lowest cloud base from 1,900 to 4,100, the latest 1,900, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft1,0002,0003,0004,0005,0003 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 16MVFRVFR

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

Perkasie: 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 Pennridge 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

PerkasieCKZ

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/542 ft/26 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Perkasie 0.8 NEPA-BK-39

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/390 ft/178 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

0in

Snow on the ground

Measured at Sewage Plant Outside And .25MI At Pa (SRVP1), 2.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:08. measured daily

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