Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Phifer Airfield until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 72° after 60° today.
Now. Phifer Airfield is 38° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Phifer Airfield, Wyoming.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Douglas (WY), 54 miles off.
Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.97 in in the last 24 hours, 2.00 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 5,900 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 89° / 269° | 3 mph head, on 26 | 9 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Wheatland (EAN), Phifer Airfield's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 9 PM Thursday; 54 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 40 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 25 F, the air 44% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 4 PM Thursday to 95% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the north at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 10 AM Thursday, with a gust of 31 mph at 10 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.67 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.53 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 2 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.47 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.17 in, in the hour to 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Wheatland: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Phifer Airfield, 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
WheatlandEAN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/4,767 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Guernsey Dam NrGURW4
At a dam/17.8 mi away/4,495 ft/281 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ColemanWY1
Beside a road/19.2 mi away/5,019 ft/243 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Wheatland 1.5 EWY-PT-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/4,780 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Guernsey DamGUEW4
At a dam/18.8 mi away/4,408 ft/368 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.