Temperature
45 F at 12 PM; 48 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 11 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 45F
- 12 PM
- Highest
- 48F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 43F
- 11 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Luce County Airport is 45° and light rain at 12 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 23 mph. 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 10:28 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 10 hours 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Luce County Airport, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Eastern Upper Peninsula (MI), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 AM.
Precipitation
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 8 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 2,856 ft | 150 ft | Grass | 34° / 214° | 7 mph head, on 04 | 10 mph from the left |
| 11 / 29 | 4,304 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 110° / 290° | 8 mph head, on 29 | 9 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Newberry (ERY), Luce County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 12 PM; 48 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 41 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 85% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 6 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
18 mph from the north northwest at 12 PM; at its strongest 18 mph, 12 PM, with a gust of 25 mph at 10 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 12 PM, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 4 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 9 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.80 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.11 in, in the hour to 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Newberry: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Luce County 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
NewberryERY
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/869 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
MI-01 NewberryMC068
Beside a road/9.4 mi away/761 ft/108 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.0 mi away/882 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/892 ft/23 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
McMillan 7.4 NMI-LC-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.3 mi away/883 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Newberry Corr Facility (NCFM4), 2.5 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
66 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.