Temperature
68 F at 1 AM; 68 F at its warmest, 1 AM, and 47 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 68F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 68F
- 1 AM
- Lowest
- 47F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Jackson County Airport/Reynolds Field is 68° and light rain at 2 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. Moderate breeze from the west-southwest at 16 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Jackson County Airport/Reynolds Field, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Jackson (MI), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.27 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,351 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 51° / 231° | 17 mph head, on 25 | None |
| 14 / 32 | 4,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 133° / 313° | 2 mph head, on 32 | 17 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Jackson/Reynolds (JXN), Jackson County Airport/Reynolds Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
68 F at 1 AM; 68 F at its warmest, 1 AM, and 47 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 66 F, the air 93% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 12 PM Thursday to 97% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the southwest at 1 AM; at its strongest 14 mph, 1 AM, with a gust of 26 mph at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.69 inHg at 1 AM, falling 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.54 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 11 PM Thursday; 6 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 11 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Jackson/Reynolds: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Jackson County Airport/Reynolds Field, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,001 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
MI-05 MarshallMC100
Beside a road/27.5 mi away/938 ft/63 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Adrian [CCOOP]ARNM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.0 mi away/738 ft/263 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jackson 3.2 WMI-JC-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/998 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Eaton RapidsETNM4
At a cooperative observer's station/20.3 mi away/869 ft/132 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Eaton Rapids (ETNM4), 20.3 miles from here, read 15 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.