Airports/Pennsylvania/Brandywine Regional Airport

Brandywine Regional Airport, Pennsylvania

Small airport in Chester County, Pennsylvania

59° 66°/53°

Overcast· Feels like 59°·Light breeze 4 mph SE

Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 53% around 8 PM.

Now. Brandywine Regional Airport is 59° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 4 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 57°, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 77°, and the coolest Saturday, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (86%) and Saturday (57%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 36°.

The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

25Air quality

77%Humidity

99%Cloud

Now

10:00 PM

59feels59

Today

Oct 15

6653

19%

Fri

Oct 16

7755

86%

13mph

Sat

Oct 17

5345

57%

15mph

Sun

Oct 18

5636

Mon

Oct 19

5939

11%

Tue

Oct 20

6543

11%

Wed

Oct 21

6446

59°

66°53°

77°55°

53°45°

56°36°

59°39°

65°43°

64°46°

As of 10:00 PM in Brandywine Regional Airport, Pennsylvania.

Air quality

The air at Brandywine Regional Airport

Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Wilmington Area (DE), 17 miles off.

25Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good14.7 mi
Ozone25Good23 ppb12 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)6Good17.4 mi
Nitrogen dioxide2Good2 ppb24.7 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb15.6 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.5 ppm19.7 mi

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 55, moderate.

GoodModerate

55YesterdayOct 14

Smoke, the next 41 hours

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

Precipitation

What has fallen at Brandywine Regional Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.04in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%

Visibility

How far you can see at Brandywine Regional Airport, the next 41 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 10 AM.

Airfield

Code: OQN
ICAO: KOQN
IATA: -
Field elevation: 466 ft
Serves: West Chester
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: OQN
Wind now: From 140° at 3 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:35

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
09 / 27	3,347 ft	50 ft	Asphalt	77° / 257°	1 mph head, on 09	3 mph from the right

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Brandywine Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.

measured now4 instruments

West ChesterOQN

At an airfield/0.1 mi away/457 ft/9 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

I-95 @ Welcome Center Delaware C PA US PADOTPA068

Beside a road/13.7 mi away/89 ft/377 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

AvondaleAVOP1

At a river or reservoir gauge/14.1 mi away/361 ft/105 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Avondale 2 N03761

At a climate reference station/14.3 mi away/400 ft/66 ft below here