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Blanding Municipal Airport, Utah

Small airport in San Juan County, Utah

Air quality

The air at Blanding Municipal Airport

Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Mesa Verde National Park (CO), 61 miles off.

26Good
  • Ozone26Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 47, good.

Smoke, the next 44 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.

FriSat

Precipitation

What has fallen at Blanding Municipal Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 1.90 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
1.90in

Visibility

How far you can see at Blanding Municipal Airport, the next 44 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.

FriSat

Airfield

Code
BDG
ICAO
KBDG
IATA
BDG
Field elevation
5,868 ft
Serves
Blanding
Kind
Small airport
Scheduled service
No
Its own instrument
BDG
Wind now
From 360° at 18 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:55

Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceHeading, trueWind along it nowCrosswind now
17 / 355,781 ft75 ftAsphalt180° / 0°18 mph head, on 35None
17352,000 ftN360° 18 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 Blanding (BDG), Blanding Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

53 F at 9 PM; 58 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 39 F at its coolest, 4 AM.

Now
53F
9 PM
Highest
58F
3 PM
Lowest
39F
4 AM
Temperature and Dew point at Blanding, temperature from 38.6 to 57.8, the latest 52.7; dew point from 35.5 to 40.3, the latest 35.6, in degrees Fahrenheit.TEMPERATURE AND DEW POINTF30405060Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMFREEZINGTEMPERATUREDEW POINT

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

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 36 F, the air 52% saturated; the humidity ran from 48% at 4 PM to 98% at 1 AM.

Dew point now
36F
9 PM
Humidity now
52%
Humidity, range
48 to 98%
Relative humidity at Blanding, relative humidity from 48 to 98, the latest 52, in per cent.RELATIVE HUMIDITY%406080100Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Wind

18 mph from the north at 9 PM; at its strongest 21 mph, 1 PM, with a gust of 32 mph at 2 PM.

Now
18mph
from the north
Strongest
21mph
1 PM
Highest gust
32mph
2 PM
Wind and Gust at Blanding, wind from 0 to 21, the latest 18; gust from 21 to 32, the latest 26, in miles an hour.WIND AND GUSTmph010203040Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMWINDGUST
Wind direction at Blanding, wind direction from 10 to 360, the latest 10, in degrees.WIND DIRECTION°090180270360Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Pressure

30.46 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.25 inHg higher than a day before.

Now
30.46inHg
9 PM
3 hours
+0.05inHg
rising
24 hours
+0.25inHg
Pressure, altimeter at Blanding, pressure, altimeter from 30.21 to 30.46, the latest 30.46, in inches of mercury.PRESSURE, ALTIMETERinHg30.2030.3030.4030.50Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PM

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

Visibility

Down to 9 miles at 7 AM; 10 miles or more now.

Now
10+mi
Lowest
9mi
7 AM
Hours under a mile
0
Visibility at Blanding, visibility from 9.0 to 10.0, the latest 10.0, in miles.VISIBILITYmi02.557.510Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMLIFRIFRMVFRVFR

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

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 4,800 ft at 6 AM; a base was reported in 3 of the hours.

Lowest base now
-
Lowest in 24 hours
4,800ft
6 AM
Hours with a base reported
3
Lowest cloud base at Blanding, lowest cloud base from 4,800 to 7,500, the latest 4,800, in feet.LOWEST CLOUD BASEft4,0005,0006,0007,0008,000Oct 153 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMVFR

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

Precipitation

None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.

Last 24 hours
0.00in
Wettest hour
-
Hours with some
0

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

Blanding: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Blanding Municipal 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 now4 instruments

BlandingBDG

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/5,821 ft/47 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Alkali Mesa ScanALKU1

At a river or reservoir gauge/9.1 mi away/6,451 ft/583 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Alkali MesaS2138

At a soil climate station/9.1 mi away/6,445 ft/577 ft above here

temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture

UT-191 @ MonticelloUTMCO

Beside a road/12.8 mi away/7,257 ft/1,389 ft above here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Blanding 0.3 WSWUT-SJ-9

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/6,111 ft/243 ft above here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Monticello No. 2MTOU1

At a cooperative observer's station/20.9 mi away/7,100 ft/1,232 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

-

Snow on the ground

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