Temperature
48 F at 10 PM; 52 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 42 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
- Now
- 48F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 52F
- 1 PM
- Lowest
- 42F
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely tonight, from about 10 PM (92%).
Now. Wexford County Airport is 48° and light drizzle at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (87%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 27°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Wexford County Airport, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Northwest Lower (MI), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 2 PM.
Precipitation
0.64 in in the last 24 hours, 0.81 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.2 miles Fri 2 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 66° / 246° | 6 mph head, on 07 | 3 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 unlit | 1,986 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 180° / 0° | 0 mph head, on 18 | 7 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Cadillac/Wexford (CAD), Wexford County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
48 F at 10 PM; 52 F at its warmest, 1 PM, and 42 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 48 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 75% at 1 PM to 100% at 6 PM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the east at 10 PM; at its strongest 12 mph, 5 PM, with a gust of 20 mph at 5 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.74 inHg at 10 PM, falling 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.48 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 4 PM; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 10 PM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.77 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.20 in, in the hour to 4 PM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Cadillac/Wexford: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Wexford County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,306 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bdws Bridge 1 - E 50 Rd - US 131 MI Us MidotMC116
Beside a road/6.7 mi away/1,368 ft/61 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
RAWS - WellstonWLLM4
A remote fire weather station/25.9 mi away/784 ft/523 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CadillacCADM4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.4 mi away/1,289 ft/18 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cadillac 3.0 EMI-WX-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,354 ft/47 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
66 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.