Temperature
41 F at 2 AM; 59 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 41F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 59F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 39F
- 10 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM, the chance peaking at 88% around 8 AM.
Now. Hartness State Airport is 42° and light rain at 3 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 45°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:49 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Hartness State Airport, Vermont.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Rutland (VT), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.84 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,501 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 35° / 215° | Calm | Calm |
| 11 / 29 | 3,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 98° / 278° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Springfield/Hartnes (VSF), Hartness State Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
41 F at 2 AM; 59 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 38 F, the air 89% saturated; the humidity ran from 30% at 2 PM Thursday to 92% at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 2 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 11 AM Thursday, with a gust of 21 mph at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.05 inHg at 2 AM, falling 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.09 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 3,200 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 7 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
Springfield/Hartnes: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Hartness State 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/577 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Black River (South) AT N Springfield ResNOSV1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/581 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weathersfie MM51.3 I91 Sb VtVT019
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/505 ft/72 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lye BrookS2042
At a soil climate station/32.9 mi away/2,435 ft/1,858 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Perkinsville 1.7 SSWVT-WR-51
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/628 ft/51 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/581 ft/4 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.