Temperature
50 F at 11 AM; 58 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 35 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 50F
- 11 AM
- Highest
- 58F
- 1 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 35F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Vernal Regional Airport, Utah
Medium airport in Uintah County, Utah49°
61°/32°
Clear·
Feels like 47°·Light breeze 5 mph SSE
Now. Vernal Regional Airport is 49° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 59° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (70%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
28Air quality
56%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
49feels47
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6132
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5732
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
5735
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
5939
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5942
19%
Wed
Oct 21
6043
21%
Thu
Oct 22
5745
70%
49°
61°32°
57°32°
57°35°
59°39°
59°42°
60°43°
57°45°
As of 12:00 PM in Vernal Regional Airport, Utah.
Air quality
The air at Vernal Regional Airport
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Vernal (UT), 1 mile off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone28Good28 ppb18.3 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.6 ppb18.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
GoodModerate
- 33YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Vernal Regional Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.10in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Vernal Regional Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- VEL
- ICAO
- KVEL
- IATA
- VEL
- Field elevation
- 5,278 ft
- Serves
- Vernal
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- VEL
- Wind now
- From 120° at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 11:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 7,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 177° / 357° | 3 mph head, on 17 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Vernal (VEL), Vernal Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 35 F, the air 56% saturated; the humidity ran from 36% at 1 PM Thursday to 79% at 9 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 35F
- 11 AM
- Humidity now
- 56%
- Humidity, range
- 36 to 79%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the east southeast at 11 AM; at its strongest 13 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 22 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the east southeast
- Strongest
- 13mph
- 1 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 22mph
- 1 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.71 inHg at 11 AM, falling 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.16 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.71inHg
- 11 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.04inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- +0.16inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
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
Vernal: 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 Vernal Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
VernalVEL
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/5,276 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-40 at MP 140 Asphalt RidgeUTASH
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/5,712 ft/434 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Split MountainS2154
At a soil climate station/8.9 mi away/4,844 ft/434 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Split Mountain ScanSPMU1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.0 mi away/4,839 ft/439 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Vernal 0.8 SUT-UN-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/5,351 ft/73 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VernalVELU1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/5,476 ft/198 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Utah
26 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Vernal Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Naplescity, 1 mi
- Vernalcity, 2 mi
- Maesercommunity, 4 mi
- Jensencommunity, 10 mi
- Lapointcommunity, 15 mi
- Fort Duchesnecommunity, 21 mi
- Randlettcommunity, 22 mi
- Whiterockscommunity, 22 mi
- Ballardtown, 25 mi
- Rooseveltcity, 27 mi
- Neolacommunity, 27 mi
- Flaming Gorgecommunity, 31 mi
Airports near Vernal Regional Airport
- Roosevelt Municipal Airport74V, 30 mi
- Manila Airport40U, 39 mi
- Duchesne Municipal AirportU69, 49 mi
- Carbon County Regional Airport / Buck Davis FieldPUC, 87 mi
- Heber Valley AirportHCR, 101 mi
- Spanish Fork Municipal Airport/Woodhouse FieldSPK, 115 mi
- Canyonlands Regional AirportCNY, 117 mi
- Provo Municipal AirportPVU, 117 mi