Airports/Rhode Island/Newport State Airport

Newport State Airport, Rhode Island

Medium airport in Newport County, Rhode Island

67° 67°/50°

Overcast· Feels like 67°·Moderate breeze 13 mph SW

Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 5 AM, the chance peaking at 57% around 6 AM.

Now. Newport State Airport is 67° and overcast at 4 PM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the southwest at 13 mph.

Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 64° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (68%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:51 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

1UV Low

28Air quality

93%Humidity

99%Cloud

Now

4:00 PM

67feels67

16%

13mph

Today

Oct 16

6750

96%

17mph

Sat

Oct 17

5144

68%

14mph

Sun

Oct 18

5337

Mon

Oct 19

5742

14%

15mph

Tue

Oct 20

5947

23%

15mph

Wed

Oct 21

5849

16mph

Thu

Oct 22

5848

27%

14mph

67°

67°50°

51°44°

53°37°

57°42°

59°47°

58°49°

58°48°

As of 4:00 PM in Newport State Airport, Rhode Island.

Air quality

The air at Newport State Airport

Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Coastal (RI), 13 miles off.

28Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good12 mi
Ozone28Good30 ppb12 mi
Nitrogen dioxide3Good3.7 ppb21.9 mi
Sulfur dioxide0Good0.5 ppb12 mi
Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm21.9 mi

The days ahead

Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.

GoodModerate

36YesterdayOct 15
33TodayOct 16
35SatOct 17
36SunOct 18
33MonOct 19
30TueOct 20

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Newport State Airport

0.21 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.21in
Last 3 days: 0.21in

Visibility

How far you can see at Newport State Airport, the next 41 hours

Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Fri 8 PM, under a mile for 3 hours.

Airfield

Code: UUU
ICAO: KUUU
IATA: NPT
Field elevation: 172 ft
Serves: Newport
Kind: Medium airport
Scheduled service: Yes
Its own instrument: UUU
Wind now: -

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
04 / 22	2,999 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	24° / 204°	-	-
16 / 34	2,623 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	144° / 324°	-	-

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

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Newport 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

NewportUUU

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/95 ft/77 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Prudence Island WeatherNAXR1

At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/2 ft/170 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Kingston 1 NW54796

At a climate reference station/13.7 mi away/115 ft/57 ft below here

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Middletown 0.4 NRI-NW-33