Temperature
41 F at 8 AM; 67 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 41F
- 8 AM
- Highest
- 67F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 39F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/Washington/Olympia Regional Airport
Olympia Regional Airport, Washington
Medium airport in Thurston County, Washington42°
74°/43°
Fog·
Feels like 42°·Calm 0 mph SSE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 74° today.
Now. Olympia Regional Airport is 42° and fog at 8 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 73° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 12 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Thursday, near 59°. Rain is likely tomorrow (58%). Rain is possible Thursday (31%). The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:01 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.
0UV Low
49Air quality
100%Humidity
95%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
42feels42
now, fog
Today
Oct 16
7443
partly cloudy day
Sat
Oct 17
6449
58%
Sun
Oct 18
6035
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
6035
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
6034
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6232
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5936
31%
42°
74°43°
64°49°
60°35°
60°35°
60°34°
62°32°
59°36°
As of 8:00 AM in Olympia Regional Airport, Washington.
Air quality
The air at Olympia Regional Airport
Index 49, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater (WA), 6 miles off.
49Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)49Good5.5 mi
- Ozone0Good1 ppb5.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
GoodModerate
- 33YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- 17SatOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 17MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Olympia Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Olympia Regional Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sun 5 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- OLM
- ICAO
- KOLM
- IATA
- OLM
- Field elevation
- 209 ft
- Serves
- Olympia
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- OLM
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 08:09
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 unlit | 4,157 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 104° / 284° | Calm | Calm |
| 17 / 35 | 5,500 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 193° / 13° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Olympia (OLM), Olympia Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 41 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 56% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM.
- Dew point now
- 41F
- 8 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 56 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
Calm at 8 AM; at its strongest 7 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- calm
- Strongest
- 7mph
- 10 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.20 inHg at 8 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.19 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.20inHg
- 8 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.00inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.19inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.1 miles at 8 AM, under a mile for 12 hours; 0.1 miles now.
- Now
- 0.1mi
- Lowest
- 0.1mi
- 8 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 12
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 100 ft at 12 AM; a base was reported in 14 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 200ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 100ft
- 12 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 14
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Olympia: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Olympia Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
OlympiaOLM
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/200 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Oyster Bay RoadTOYST
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/161 ft/48 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 mi away/729 ft/520 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tumwater 1.6 WSWWA-TH-57
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/194 ft/15 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElmaELAW1
At a cooperative observer's station/23.6 mi away/98 ft/111 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 Washington
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Olympia Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tumwatercity, 2 mi
- Olympiacity, 5 mi
- Laceycity, 6 mi
- Tanglewildecommunity, 8 mi
- Teninocity, 8 mi
- Nisqually Indian Communitycommunity, 11 mi
- Rainiercity, 11 mi
- Bucodatown, 12 mi
- Rochestercommunity, 13 mi
- Grand Moundcommunity, 13 mi
- Yelmcity, 14 mi
- DuPontcity, 15 mi
Airports near Olympia Regional Airport
- Gray Army Air FieldGRF, 17 mi
- Chehalis Centralia AirportCLS, 21 mi
- Sanderson FieldSHN, 22 mi
- McChord Air Force BaseTCM, 23 mi
- Tacoma Narrows AirportTIW, 26 mi
- Pierce County-Thun FieldPLU, 30 mi
- Bremerton National AirportPWT, 37 mi
- Seattle-Tacoma International AirportSEA, 43 mi