Temperature
66 F at 12 AM; 66 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 63 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 66F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 66F
- 12 AM
- Lowest
- 63F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 26 degrees cooler: a high of 44° after 70° today.
Now. Ingalls Field is 65° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 62°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Gentle breeze from the south at 11 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 8 AM, with some cloud. 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 Tuesday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 44°. Rain is possible tomorrow (32%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:41 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. The day is 11 hours 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Ingalls Field, Virginia.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Natural Bridge (VA), 27 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.27 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,600 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 59° / 239° | 9 mph head, on 25 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Hot Springs/Ingalls (HSP), Ingalls Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
66 F at 12 AM; 66 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 63 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 65 F, the air 98% saturated; the humidity ran from 92% at 2 AM Thursday to 99% at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the southwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 11 mph, 2 AM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.15 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 4 AM Thursday, under a mile for 17 hours; 2 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
0.11 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Hot Springs/Ingalls: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Ingalls Field, 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,793 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lime Kiln RAWSLKRV2
A remote fire weather station/4.7 mi away/2,018 ft/1,775 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ShenandoahS2088
At a soil climate station/34.6 mi away/1,763 ft/2,030 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Hot SpringsHSPV2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/2,303 ft/1,490 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hot Springs 2.8 NEVA-BH-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/2,504 ft/1,289 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hot Springs (HSPV2), 3.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.