LancasterLNC
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/502 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lancaster Airport until 7 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lancaster Airport is 61° and overcast at 6 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 88°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:09 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Lancaster Airport, Texas.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 6,500 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 141° / 321° | - | - |
The 4 instruments nearest Lancaster 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 now2 instruments
LancasterLNC
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/502 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a park or preserve/16.2 mi away/600 ft/99 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FerrisFERT2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/482 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
DeSoto 2.2 ENETX-DA-63
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/613 ft/112 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.