Airports/Wisconsin/Platteville Municipal Airport

Platteville Municipal Airport, Wisconsin

Small airport in Grant County, Wisconsin

45° 53°/43°

Mostly cloudy· Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW

Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Platteville Municipal Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.

Now. Platteville Municipal Airport is 45° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

25Air quality

99%Humidity

75%Cloud

Now

4:00 AM

45feels40

12mph

Today

Oct 16

5343

49%

20mph

Sat

Oct 17

5630

12mph

Sun

Oct 18

6238

14mph

Mon

Oct 19

6541

Tue

Oct 20

6843

Wed

Oct 21

7046

Thu

Oct 22

7151

15%

45°

53°43°

56°30°

62°38°

65°41°

68°43°

70°46°

71°51°

As of 4:00 AM in Platteville Municipal Airport, Wisconsin.

Air quality

The air at Platteville Municipal Airport

Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Driftless Area South (WI), 19 miles off.

25Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)25Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 12, good.

GoodModerate

12YesterdayOct 15
GoodTodayOct 16
GoodSatOct 17

Smoke, the next 46 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Platteville Municipal Airport

0.71 in in the last 24 hours, 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.71in
Last 3 days: 0.94in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 76%

Visibility

How far you can see at Platteville Municipal Airport, the next 46 hours

Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.

Airfield

Code: PVB
ICAO: KPVB
IATA: -
Field elevation: 1,025 ft
Serves: Platteville
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: PVB
Wind now: From 280° at 12 mph, read 16 Oct, 04:35

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
07 / 25	3,600 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	68° / 248°	10 mph head, on 25	6 mph from the right
15 / 33	4,000 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	145° / 325°	8 mph head, on 33	8 mph from the left

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Platteville (PVB), Platteville Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

45 F at 4 AM; 55 F at its warmest, 5 AM Thursday, and 45 F at its coolest, 4 AM.

Now: 45F; 4 AM
Highest: 55F; 5 AM Thursday
Lowest: 45F; 4 AM

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 45 F, the air 98% saturated; the humidity ran from 94% at 5 AM Thursday to 100% at 6 AM Thursday.

Dew point now: 45F; 4 AM
Humidity now: 98%
Humidity, range: 94 to 100%

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

12 mph from the west at 4 AM; at its strongest 16 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 9 PM Thursday.

Now: 12mph; from the west
Strongest: 16mph; 9 PM Thursday
Highest gust: 29mph; 9 PM Thursday

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.02 inHg at 4 AM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg lower than a day before.

Now: 30.02inHg; 4 AM
3 hours: +0.05inHg; rising
24 hours: -0.12inHg

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

Down to 2 miles at 9 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.

Now: 10+mi
Lowest: 2mi; 9 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 300 ft at 9 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.

Lowest base now: 1,600ft
Lowest in 24 hours: 300ft; 9 AM Thursday
Hours with a base reported: 23

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

Precipitation

0.73 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.14 in, in the hour to 8 AM Thursday.

Last 24 hours: 0.73in
Wettest hour: 0.14in; 8 AM Thursday
Hours with some: 14

How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002

Platteville: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Platteville Municipal 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

PlattevillePVB

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,024 ft/1 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Uw Platteville ScanUWPW3

At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/1,075 ft/50 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

PlattevilleS2196

At a soil climate station/3.2 mi away/1,014 ft/11 ft below here

temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture

Dickeyville - USH 151 @ STH 11DICW3

Beside a road/14.9 mi away/801 ft/224 ft below here