Temperature
34 F at 2 AM; 53 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 34 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 34F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 53F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 34F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 58° today.
Now. Fort Bridger Airport is 34° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 66°, and the coolest Thursday, near 57°. Rain is likely Thursday (52%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Fort Bridger Airport, Wyoming.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Moxa Arch (WY), 41 miles off.
Yesterday measured 4, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 94, moderate, Sat 8 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 6,404 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 54° / 234° | 6 mph head, on 04 | 1 mph from the left |
| 07 / 25 unlit | 3,520 ft | 50 ft | GRE | 78° / 258° | 5 mph head, on 07 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Fort Bridger (FBR), Fort Bridger Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
34 F at 2 AM; 53 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 34 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 32 F, the air 92% saturated; the humidity ran from 37% at 3 PM Thursday to 92% at 2 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the east northeast at 2 AM; at its strongest 20 mph, 12 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.74 inHg at 2 AM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.29 inHg higher 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 3,000 ft at 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 8 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
Fort Bridger: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Bridger Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Fort BridgerFBR
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/7,023 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Muddy Ck RAWSMUDW4
A remote fire weather station/7.4 mi away/6,896 ft/138 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
FrenchWY35
Beside a road/10.2 mi away/7,375 ft/341 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lyman .06 SWY-UN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/6,716 ft/318 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LymanLYMW4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.8 mi away/6,662 ft/372 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Lyman (LYMW4), 8.8 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.