Temperature
63 F at 1 AM; 75 F at its warmest, 3 AM Thursday, and 63 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 63F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 75F
- 3 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 63F
- 8 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field, Virginia
Medium airport in Virginia63°
84°/61°
Overcast·
Feels like 63°·Light breeze 4 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 8 PM, the chance peaking at 55% around 3 AM.
Now. Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field is 63° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely tomorrow (78%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
90%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
63feels63
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
8461
59%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
5650
78%
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
5841
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6142
14%
Tue
Oct 20
6647
11%
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
6650
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
6550
mostly clear day
63°
84°61°
56°50°
58°41°
61°42°
66°47°
66°50°
65°50°
As of 2:00 AM in Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Northern Virginia (VA), 29 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Ozone14Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 33TodayOct 16
- 17SatOct 17
- 28SunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.05in
- Last 3 days
- 0.05in
Visibility
How far you can see at Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- NYG
- ICAO
- KNYG
- IATA
- NYG
- Field elevation
- 10 ft
- Serves
- Quantico
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- NYG
- Wind now
- From 210° at 3 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:56
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 4,250 ft | 184 ft | Asphalt | 15° / 195° | 3 mph head, on 20 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Quantico Mcaf (NYG), Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 60 F, the air 90% saturated; the humidity ran from 68% at 2 PM Thursday to 92% at 12 AM.
- Dew point now
- 60F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 90%
- Humidity, range
- 68 to 92%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
7 mph from the south southwest at 1 AM; at its strongest 15 mph, 9 AM Thursday, with a gust of 21 mph at 9 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 7mph
- from the south southwest
- Strongest
- 15mph
- 9 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 21mph
- 9 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.07 inHg at 1 AM, falling 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.07inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.06inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- +0.03inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 6 miles at 3 PM Thursday; 7 miles now.
- Now
- 7mi
- Lowest
- 6mi
- 3 PM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,000 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,000ft
- 12 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 21
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.06 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.05 in, in the hour to 12 AM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Wettest hour
- 0.05in
- 12 AM
- Hours with some
- 5
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Quantico Mcaf: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/13 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Triangle - Prince William RAWSPWRV2
A remote fire weather station/5.6 mi away/229 ft/219 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stafford 3.6 NNEVA-SF-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/13 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FredericksburgFEDV2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.4 mi away/43 ft/33 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 Virginia
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Quanticotown, 2 mi
- Quantico Basecommunity, 2 mi
- Trianglecommunity, 3 mi
- Boswell's Cornercommunity, 4 mi
- Dumfriestown, 4 mi
- Aquia Harbourcommunity, 5 mi
- Cherry Hillcommunity, 6 mi
- Camp Barrettcommunity, 7 mi
- Leesylvaniacommunity, 7 mi
- Stafford Courthousecommunity, 8 mi
- Montclaircommunity, 8 mi
- Independent Hillcommunity, 10 mi
Airports near Quantico Marine Corps Airfield / Turner Field
- Stafford Regional AirportRMN, 11 mi
- Davison Army Air FieldDAA, 16 mi
- Shannon AirportEZF, 18 mi
- Washington Manassas Harry P. Davis FieldHEF, 19 mi
- Warrenton Fauquier AirportHWY, 23 mi
- Culpeper Regional AirportCJR, 30 mi
- Washington Dulles International AirportIAD, 32 mi
- Leesburg Executive AirportJYO, 42 mi