Temperature
43 F at 4 AM; 66 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 43F
- 4 AM
- Highest
- 66F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 43F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Washington/Chehalis Centralia Airport
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 75° today.
Now. Chehalis Centralia Airport is 45° and fog at 4 AM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 1 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Monday, near 60°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:03 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Chehalis Centralia Airport, Washington.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Chehalis (WA), 1 mile off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 11 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 5,000 ft | 140 ft | Concrete | 177° / 357° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Chehalis (CLS), Chehalis Centralia Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
43 F at 4 AM; 66 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 43 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 67% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 4 AM; at its strongest 9 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.22 inHg at 4 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.15 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 12 AM, under a mile for 6 hours; 0.3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 6 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 11 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
Chehalis: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Chehalis Centralia 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 now3 instruments
ChehalisCLS
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/177 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
ChehalisBLKW1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/164 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Grand MoundTGMND
Beside a road/8.7 mi away/184 ft/8 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Chehalis 0.0 NWA-LW-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/367 ft/191 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DryadDYWW1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/315 ft/139 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.