Temperature
67 F at 2 AM; 74 F at its warmest, 4 AM Thursday, and 64 F at its coolest, 6 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 67F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 74F
- 4 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 64F
- 6 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Wallops Flight Facility Airport, Virginia
Small airport in Accomack County, Virginia65°
81°/62°
Overcast·
Feels like 65°·Light breeze 8 mph ESE
Coming up. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 3 AM (54%).
Now. Wallops Flight Facility Airport is 65° and overcast at 2 AM. The dew point is 63°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is likely tomorrow (85%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
90%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
65feels65
11%
Today
Oct 16
8162
64%
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
5849
85%
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6044
23mph
Mon
Oct 19
6348
29%
23mph
Tue
Oct 20
6550
20%
18mph
Wed
Oct 21
6551
16%
23mph
Thu
Oct 22
6452
16%
18mph
65°
81°62°
58°49°
60°44°
63°48°
65°50°
65°51°
64°52°
As of 2:00 AM in Wallops Flight Facility Airport, Virginia.
Air quality
The air at Wallops Flight Facility Airport
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Sussex County (DE), 52 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
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 Wallops Flight Facility Airport
0.24 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
- 0.24in
- Last 3 days
- 0.24in
Visibility
How far you can see at Wallops Flight Facility Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 10 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- WAL
- ICAO
- KWAL
- IATA
- WAL
- Field elevation
- 40 ft
- Serves
- Wallops Island
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- WAL
- Wind now
- From 90° at 8 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:54
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 8,748 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 32° / 212° | 4 mph head, on 04 | 7 mph from the right |
| 10 / 28 | 8,005 ft | 200 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 8 mph head, on 10 | None |
| 17 / 35 | 4,808 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 158° / 338° | 3 mph head, on 17 | 7 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Wallops Island STN (WAL), Wallops Flight Facility Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 64 F, the air 90% saturated; the humidity ran from 73% at 1 PM Thursday to 91% at 8 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 64F
- 2 AM
- Humidity now
- 90%
- Humidity, range
- 73 to 91%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
7 mph from the southeast at 2 AM; at its strongest 23 mph, 7 AM Thursday, with a gust of 37 mph at 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 7mph
- from the southeast
- Strongest
- 23mph
- 7 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 37mph
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.05 inHg at 2 AM, falling 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.06 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.05inHg
- 2 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.05inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- +0.06inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 1 mile at 8 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 1mi
- 8 AM 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 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 1,000ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,000ft
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.23 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.23 in, in the hour to 8 AM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.23in
- Wettest hour
- 0.23in
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 4
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Wallops Island STN: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Wallops Flight Facility 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 now1 instrument
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/135 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wallops Island 2.2 WNWVA-AC-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/40 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PainterPAIV2
At a cooperative observer's station/31.6 mi away/26 ft/14 ft below 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 Wallops Flight Facility Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Horntowncommunity, 1 mi
- Wattsvillecommunity, 2 mi
- Atlanticcommunity, 4 mi
- Oak Hallcommunity, 4 mi
- New Churchcommunity, 5 mi
- Captains Covecommunity, 5 mi
- Chincoteaguetown, 5 mi
- Temperancevillecommunity, 6 mi
- Greenbackvillecommunity, 6 mi
- Makemie Parkcommunity, 7 mi
- Hallwoodtown, 8 mi
- Mappsvillecommunity, 9 mi
Airports near Wallops Flight Facility Airport
- Accomack County AirportMFV, 26 mi
- Tangier Island AirportTGI, 30 mi
- Hummel FieldW75, 59 mi
- Middle Peninsula Regional AirportFYJ, 77 mi
- Langley Air Force BaseLFI, 77 mi
- Tappahannock-Essex County AirportXSA, 78 mi
- Newport News Williamsburg International AirportPHF, 79 mi
- Norfolk International AirportORF, 83 mi