Temperature
53 F at 2 PM; 53 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 36 F at its coolest, 11 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 53F
- 2 PM
- Highest
- 53F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 36F
- 11 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely this afternoon, from about 2 PM (78%).
Now. Northeast Kingdom International Airport is 54° and light rain at 2 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 41°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:40 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Northeast Kingdom International Airport, Vermont.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Burlington (VT), 56 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, 0.93 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 3 miles Fri 2 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 unlit | 3,996 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 29° / 209° | 3 mph head, on 23 | 4 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 | 5,301 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 159° / 339° | 5 mph head, on 18 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Newport (EFK), Northeast Kingdom International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
53 F at 2 PM; 53 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 36 F at its coolest, 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 51 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 45% at 4 PM Thursday to 93% at 2 PM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the south southeast at 2 PM; at its strongest 16 mph, 6 AM, with a gust of 25 mph at 6 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.53 inHg at 2 PM, falling 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.68 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 6 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 900 ft at 12 PM; a base was reported in 13 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Newport: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Northeast Kingdom International 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 now4 instruments
NewportEFK
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/930 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Derby VTVT007
Beside a road/7.8 mi away/1,040 ft/110 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Missisquoi River 2 S North TroyNTYV1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/656 ft/274 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mount MansfieldS2041
At a soil climate station/38.5 mi away/2,236 ft/1,306 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Coventry 0.3 SVT-OL-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/716 ft/214 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Island PondISLV1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.4 mi away/1,171 ft/241 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.