Airports/Michigan/Gaylord Regional Airport

Gaylord Regional Airport, Michigan

Small airport in Otsego County, Michigan

33° 52°/27°

Clear· Feels like 30°·Light air 3 mph NW

Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 52° today.

Now. Gaylord Regional Airport is 33° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northwest at 3 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 11 PM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:33 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.

0UV Low

23Air quality

68%Humidity

2%Cloud

Now

3:00 AM

33feels30

Today

Oct 17

5227

12mph

Sun

Oct 18

6239

17mph

Mon

Oct 19

6341

Tue

Oct 20

6538

Wed

Oct 21

6641

Thu

Oct 22

6645

Fri

Oct 23

6544

33°

52°27°

62°39°

63°41°

65°38°

66°41°

66°45°

65°44°

As of 3:00 AM in Gaylord Regional Airport, Michigan.

Air quality

The air at Gaylord Regional Airport

Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Northcentral-Northeast Lower (MI), 24 miles off.

23Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
Ozone23Good-

The days ahead

Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.

GoodModerate

25YesterdayOct 16
GoodTodayOct 17
GoodSunOct 18
GoodMonOct 19

Smoke, the next 42 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Gaylord Regional Airport

0.14 in in the last 24 hours, 0.79 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.14in
Last 3 days: 0.79in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 18%

Visibility

How far you can see at Gaylord Regional Airport, the next 42 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 8 PM.

Airfield

Code: GLR
ICAO: KGLR
IATA: GLR
Field elevation: 1,328 ft
Serves: Gaylord
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: GLR
Wind now: From 300° at 3 mph, read 17 Oct, 02:53

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
09 / 27	6,579 ft	150 ft	Asphalt	90° / 270°	3 mph head, on 27	1 mph from the right
18 / 36	4,200 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	180° / 0°	2 mph head, on 36	3 mph from the left

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

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Gaylord (GLR), Gaylord Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

34 F at 2 AM; 47 F at its warmest, 4 AM Friday, and 34 F at its coolest, 2 AM.

Now: 34F; 2 AM
Highest: 47F; 4 AM Friday
Lowest: 34F; 2 AM

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 24 F, the air 66% saturated; the humidity ran from 64% at 1 AM to 96% at 4 AM Friday.

Dew point now: 24F; 2 AM
Humidity now: 66%
Humidity, range: 64 to 96%

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

2 mph from the west northwest at 3 AM; at its strongest 11 mph, 3 PM Friday, with a gust of 31 mph at 4 PM Friday.

Now: 2mph; from the west northwest
Strongest: 11mph; 3 PM Friday
Highest gust: 31mph; 4 PM Friday

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.35 inHg at 3 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.66 inHg higher than a day before.

Now: 30.35inHg; 3 AM
3 hours: +0.01inHg; steady
24 hours: +0.66inHg

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

Down to 3 miles at 4 AM Friday; 10 miles or more now.

Now: 10+mi
Lowest: 3mi; 4 AM Friday
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 500 ft at 4 AM Friday; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.

Lowest base now: -
Lowest in 24 hours: 500ft; 4 AM Friday
Hours with a base reported: 21

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

Precipitation

0.08 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 4 AM Friday.

Last 24 hours: 0.08in
Wettest hour: 0.01in; 4 AM Friday
Hours with some: 17

How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002

Gaylord: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Gaylord Regional 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 now4 instruments

GaylordGLR

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,335 ft/7 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

MI-02 Gaylord NorthMC061

Beside a road/3.0 mi away/1,339 ft/11 ft above here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Gaylord CRNGLRM4

At a river or reservoir gauge/7.3 mi away/1,450 ft/122 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Gaylord 9 SSW54854

At a climate reference station/7.9 mi away/1,461 ft/133 ft above here