Temperature
41 F at 10 AM; 51 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 41F
- 10 AM
- Highest
- 51F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 31F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Powell Municipal Airport is 39° and clear at 10 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the southeast at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 63°, and the coolest Sunday, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 10 hours 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 AM in Powell Municipal Airport, Wyoming.
Air quality
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Cody (WY), 27 miles off.
Yesterday measured 7, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 unlit | 2,623 ft | 100 ft | Grass | 45° / 225° | 1 mph head, on 21 | 16 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 6,200 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 144° / 324° | 16 mph head, on 13 | 1 mph from the left |
| 16 / 34 unlit | 2,400 ft | 100 ft | Grass | 180° / 0° | 12 mph head, on 16 | 10 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Powell (POY), Powell Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
41 F at 10 AM; 51 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 24 F, the air 50% saturated; the humidity ran from 34% at 12 PM Thursday to 73% at 6 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
18 mph from the southeast at 10 AM; at its strongest 25 mph, 11 AM Thursday, with a gust of 32 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.60 inHg at 10 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.01 inHg lower 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
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Powell: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Powell 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 now2 instruments
PowellPOY
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/5,048 ft/44 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rattlesnake Mountain RAWSRATW4
A remote fire weather station/30.9 mi away/8,602 ft/3,510 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Powell Field Station - COOPPFSW4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/4,350 ft/742 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Powell 0.3 NNEWY-PK-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.5 mi away/4,386 ft/706 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.