Airports/California/Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport

Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport, California

Medium airport in Los Angeles County, California

56° 91°/59°

Clear· Feels like 56°·Light breeze 5 mph SSW

Now. Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport is 56° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 5 mph.

The week. Highs stay close to 94° all week. The days ahead look dry. Friday is hot, 95°: heat is a danger to anyone outdoors for long.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waning gibbous, 79% lit, and rises at 8:58 PM. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The day is 11 hours 53 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

-UV

-Air quality

35%Humidity

3%Cloud

Now

7:00 AM

56feels56

Today

Sep 30

9159

15mph

Thu

Oct 1

9462

Fri

Oct 2

9567

Sat

Oct 3

9567

Sun

Oct 4

9466

Mon

Oct 5

9265

Tue

Oct 6

9365

56°

91°59°

94°62°

95°67°

94°66°

92°65°

93°65°

As of 7:00 AM in Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport, California.

Airfield

Code: PMD
ICAO: KPMD
IATA: PMD
Field elevation: 2,543 ft
Serves: Palmdale
Kind: Medium airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: PMD
Wind now: From 200° at 6 mph, read 30 Sep, 06:53

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
04 / 22	12,001 ft	150 ft	Concrete	52° / 232°	5 mph head, on 22	3 mph from the left
07 / 25	12,002 ft	200 ft	Concrete	86° / 266°	2 mph head, on 25	5 mph from the left
072 / 252 unlit	6,000 ft	75 ft	Concrete	-	-	-

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

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 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

PalmdatePMD

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,539 ft/4 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Palmdale 8SSE RAWSLPDC1

A remote fire weather station/6.5 mi away/2,951 ft/408 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

PalmdalePMDC1

At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/2,599 ft/56 ft above here

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

Lancaster 5.5 ECA-LA-77