Temperature
68 F at 3 AM; 90 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 68 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 68F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 90F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 68F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Metropolis Municipal Airport, Illinois
Small airport in Massac County, Illinois64°
60°/49°
Overcast·
Feels like 64°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NNW
Now. Metropolis Municipal Airport is 64° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 48° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
50Air quality
76%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
64feels64
12%
Today
Oct 16
6049
41%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
6040
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6533
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6937
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7239
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7541
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7743
overcast
64°
60°49°
60°40°
65°33°
69°37°
72°39°
75°41°
77°43°
As of 3:00 AM in Metropolis Municipal Airport, Illinois.
Air quality
The air at Metropolis Municipal Airport
Index 50, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Paducah (KY), 13 miles off.
50Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)50Good-
- Ozone36Good22 ppb19.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Metropolis Municipal Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.06in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Metropolis Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- M30
- ICAO
- -
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 384 ft
- Serves
- Metropolis
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- M30
- Wind now
- From 300° at 12 mph, read 16 Oct, 03:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 4,002 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 6 mph head, on 36 | 10 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Metropolis IL (M30), Metropolis Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 60 F, the air 75% saturated; the humidity ran from 43% at 4 PM Thursday to 98% at 5 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 60F
- 3 AM
- Humidity now
- 75%
- Humidity, range
- 43 to 98%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
15 mph from the west northwest at 3 AM; at its strongest 15 mph, 3 AM, with a gust of 25 mph at 3 AM.
- Now
- 15mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 15mph
- 3 AM
- Highest gust
- 25mph
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.02 inHg at 3 AM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.02inHg
- 3 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.05inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.02inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 5 miles at 5 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 5mi
- 5 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 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 16 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 1,500ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 5 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 16
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Metropolis IL: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Metropolis Municipal 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dixon Springs-RAWSDSFI2
A remote fire weather station/18.2 mi away/541 ft/157 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Metropolis 2.9 NNEIL-MC-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/404 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
In a park or preserve/3.4 mi away/335 ft/49 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Illinois
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Metropolis Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Metropolis Municipal Airport
- Cairo Regional AirportCIR, 27 mi
- Veterans Airport of Southern IllinoisMWA, 42 mi
- Harrisburg-Raleigh AirportHSB, 45 mi
- Southern Illinois AirportMDH, 49 mi
- Mount Vernon Outland AirportMVN, 79 mi
- Sparta Community Airport - Hunter FieldSAR, 85 mi
- Fairfield Municipal AirportFWC, 85 mi
- Centralia Municipal AirportENL, 94 mi