Airports/Rhode Island/North Central State Airport

North Central State Airport, Rhode Island

Small airport in Providence County, Rhode Island

55° 68°/44°

Light rain· Feels like 55°·Gentle breeze 10 mph S

Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 10 AM (69%).

Now. North Central State Airport is 55° and light rain at 9 AM. The dew point is 55°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 10 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:50 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

1UV Low

37Air quality

90%Humidity

100%Cloud

Now

9:00 AM

55feels55

36%

Today

Oct 16

6844

95%

12mph

Sat

Oct 17

5043

20%

12mph

Sun

Oct 18

5331

Mon

Oct 19

5836

Tue

Oct 20

6141

13%

Wed

Oct 21

6043

12mph

Thu

Oct 22

5742

55°

68°44°

50°43°

53°31°

58°36°

61°41°

60°43°

57°42°

As of 9:00 AM in North Central State Airport, Rhode Island.

Air quality

The air at North Central State Airport

Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Providence (RI), 7 miles off.

37Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good8.6 mi
Ozone29Good27 ppb8.6 mi
Coarse particles (PM10)-14.1 mi
Nitrogen dioxide4Good4.6 ppb8.6 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0.2 ppb8.6 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm8.6 mi

The days ahead

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

GoodModerate

31YesterdayOct 15
39TodayOct 16
31SatOct 17
28SunOct 18

Smoke, the next 42 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at North Central State Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.02in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%

Visibility

How far you can see at North Central State Airport, the next 42 hours

Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 10 AM.

Airfield

Code: SFZ
ICAO: KSFZ
IATA: SFZ
Field elevation: 441 ft
Serves: Pawtucket
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: SFZ
Wind now: -

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
05 / 23	5,000 ft	100 ft	Asphalt	32° / 212°	-	-
15 / 33	3,211 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	139° / 319°	-	-

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest North Central State 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

Pawtucket (AWOS)SFZ

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/440 ft/1 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

South Foster - Ponaganset RiverFSTR1

At a river or reservoir gauge/13.1 mi away/354 ft/87 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Kingston 1 NW54796

At a climate reference station/29.9 mi away/115 ft/326 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Smithfield 3.0 SERI-PR-75