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Port Meadville Airport, Pennsylvania

Small airport in Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Air quality

The air at Port Meadville Airport

Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Mercer County (PA), 25 miles off.

21Good
  • Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
  • Ozone21Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.

Smoke, the next 45 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.

FriSatSun

Precipitation

What has fallen at Port Meadville Airport

0.28 in in the last 24 hours, 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours
0.28in
Last 3 days
0.31in

Visibility

How far you can see at Port Meadville Airport, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 3 miles Fri 6 PM.

FriSatSun

Airfield

Code
GKJ
ICAO
KGKJ
IATA
MEJ
Field elevation
1,399 ft
Serves
Meadville
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
GKJ
Wind now
From 280° at 13 mph, read 16 Oct, 12:09

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
07 / 255,001 ft75 ftAsphalt61° / 241°10 mph head, on 258 mph from the right
07252,000 ftN280° 13 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 Meadville (GKJ), Port Meadville Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

60 F at 12 PM; 69 F at its warmest, 6 AM, and 60 F at its coolest, 12 PM.

Now
60F
12 PM
Highest
69F
6 AM
Lowest
60F
12 PM
Temperature and Dew point at Meadville, temperature from 60.0 to 69.0, the latest 60.0; dew point from 50.0 to 65.0, the latest 56.0, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF50556065703 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PMTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 56 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 54% at 2 PM Thursday to 98% at 1 AM.

Dew point now
56F
12 PM
Humidity now
87%
Humidity, range
54 to 98%
Relative humidity at Meadville, relative humidity from 54 to 98, the latest 87, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%4060801003 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM

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

Wind

12 mph from the west at 12 PM; at its strongest 14 mph, 8 AM, with a gust of 43 mph at 8 AM.

Now
12mph
from the west
Strongest
14mph
8 AM
Highest gust
43mph
8 AM
Wind and Gust at Meadville, wind from 1 to 14, the latest 12; gust from 21 to 43, the latest 25, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph02040603 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Meadville, wind direction from 110 to 280, the latest 280, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°0901802703603 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM

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

Pressure

29.80 inHg at 12 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.31 inHg lower than a day before.

Now
29.80inHg
12 PM
3 hours
+0.03inHg
rising
24 hours
-0.31inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Meadville, pressure, altimeter from 29.73 to 30.11, the latest 29.80, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg29.7029.8029.9030.0030.1030.203 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM

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

Visibility

Down to 0.5 miles at 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour; 7 miles now.

Now
7mi
Lowest
0.5mi
8 AM
Hours under a mile
1
Visibility at Meadville, visibility from 0.5 to 10.0, the latest 7.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.5103 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.

Lowest base now
1,800ft
Lowest in 24 hours
200ft
12 AM
Hours with a base reported
24
Lowest cloud base at Meadville, lowest cloud base from 200 to 10,000, the latest 1,800, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft02,5005,0007,50010,0003 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PMMVFRVFR

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

Precipitation

0.32 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.19 in, in the hour to 8 AM.

Last 24 hours
0.32in
Wettest hour
0.19in
8 AM
Hours with some
6
Precipitation at Meadville, precipitation from 0.00 to 0.19, the latest 0.01, in inches.PRECIPITATIONin0.000.050.100.150.203 PM6 PM9 PMOct 163 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM

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

Meadville: 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 Port Meadville 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

MeadvilleGKJ

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,404 ft/5 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Manchester BeachWCRP1

At a river or reservoir gauge/30.4 mi away/682 ft/717 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Meadville 0.9 SSWPA-CW-20

In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/1,089 ft/310 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

PymatuningJMSP1

At a cooperative observer's station/15.7 mi away/1,017 ft/382 ft below here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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