Shannon Airport, Virginia

Small airport in Spotsylvania County, Virginia

61° 85°/60°

Overcast· Feels like 61°·Calm 0 mph SSE

Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 1 AM (69%).

Now. Shannon Airport is 61° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 58°, so the air feels a little humid. The air is calm.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 84° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 50° by 8 AM, under cloud.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (78%).

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

19Air quality

90%Humidity

99%Cloud

Now

1:00 AM

61feels61

18%

Today

Oct 16

8560

69%

12mph

Sat

Oct 17

5649

78%

14mph

Sun

Oct 18

5739

Mon

Oct 19

6040

15%

Tue

Oct 20

6544

11%

Wed

Oct 21

6548

Thu

Oct 22

6448

61°

85°60°

56°49°

57°39°

60°40°

65°44°

65°48°

64°48°

As of 1:00 AM in Shannon Airport, Virginia.

Air quality

The air at Shannon Airport

Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southern Maryland (MD), 37 miles off.

19Good

Ozone19Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 41, good.

GoodModerate

41YesterdayOct 15
33TodayOct 16
11SatOct 17
22SunOct 18

Smoke, the next 44 hours

Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Shannon Airport

0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.07in
Last 3 days: 0.07in

Visibility

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

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.

Airfield

Code: EZF
ICAO: KEZF
IATA: -
Field elevation: 85 ft
Serves: Fredericksburg
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: EZF
Wind now: -

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
06 / 24	2,902 ft	100 ft	Asphalt	45° / 225°	-	-
15 / 33 unlit	1,300 ft	100 ft	GRE	145° / 325°	-	-

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

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Shannon 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

Shannon ArptEZF

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/85 ft/level with here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Bowling Green - Fort AP HillFAPV2

At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/222 ft/137 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

N Piedmont ArecS2039

At a soil climate station/36.3 mi away/520 ft/435 ft above here

temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture

measured daily2 instruments

Fredericksburg 1.5 SVA-FDC-3