Temperature
54 F at 5 AM; 62 F at its warmest, 2 AM, and 50 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 54F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 62F
- 2 AM
- Lowest
- 50F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Gratiot Community Airport, Michigan
Small airport in Gratiot County, Michigan55°
56°/47°
Overcast·
Feels like 55°·Gentle breeze 13 mph W
Now. Gratiot Community Airport is 55° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the west at 13 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 5 AM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:39 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
96%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
55feels55
16%
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5647
35%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5529
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6233
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6634
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6835
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
6837
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6939
partly cloudy day
55°
56°47°
55°29°
62°33°
66°34°
68°35°
68°37°
69°39°
As of 5:00 AM in Gratiot Community Airport, Michigan.
Air quality
The air at Gratiot Community Airport
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Mt Pleasant (MI), 27 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Gratiot Community Airport
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.21in
- Last 3 days
- 0.21in
Visibility
How far you can see at Gratiot Community Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- AMN
- ICAO
- KAMN
- IATA
- AMN
- Field elevation
- 754 ft
- Serves
- Alma
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- AMN
- Wind now
- From 290° at 12 mph, read 16 Oct, 05:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 5,004 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 11 mph head, on 27 | 4 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 3,198 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 4 mph head, on 36 | 11 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Alma (AMN), Gratiot Community Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 52 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 67% at 12 PM Thursday to 100% at 7 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 52F
- 5 AM
- Humidity now
- 94%
- Humidity, range
- 67 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
13 mph from the west northwest at 5 AM; at its strongest 15 mph, 4 AM, with a gust of 24 mph at 3 AM.
- Now
- 13mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 15mph
- 4 AM
- Highest gust
- 24mph
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.72 inHg at 5 AM, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.51 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.72inHg
- 5 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.09inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.51inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 12 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 12 AM
- 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 1 AM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 1,100ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 1 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 24
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.22 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.06 in, in the hour to 9 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.22in
- Wettest hour
- 0.06in
- 9 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 8
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Alma: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Gratiot Community 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 now3 instruments
AlmaAMN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/754 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alma [CCOOP]ALMM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.4 mi away/768 ft/14 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
M57Mm0320MC146
Beside a road/16.8 mi away/794 ft/40 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Alma 0.7 WMI-GR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/743 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount PleasantMTPM4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.5 mi away/794 ft/40 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Michigan
66 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Gratiot Community Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Almacity, 4 mi
- Ithacacity, 5 mi
- St. Louiscity, 8 mi
- Elm Hallcommunity, 8 mi
- Riverdalecommunity, 9 mi
- Perrintonvillage, 10 mi
- Breckenridgevillage, 12 mi
- Crystalcommunity, 12 mi
- Carson Citycity, 13 mi
- Shepherdvillage, 14 mi
- Ashleyvillage, 14 mi
- Maple Rapidsvillage, 15 mi
Airports near Gratiot Community Airport
- Mount Pleasant Municipal AirportMOP, 21 mi
- Jack Barstow AirportIKW, 32 mi
- Ionia County AirportY70, 33 mi
- MBS International AirportMBS, 34 mi
- Owosso Community AirportRNP, 36 mi
- Capital Region International AirportLAN, 38 mi
- Saginaw County H.W. Browne AirportHYX, 42 mi
- Gladwin Zettel Memorial AirportGDW, 46 mi