Temperature
54 F at 12 AM; 58 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 49 F at its coolest, 8 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 54F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 58F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 49F
- 8 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 12 AM (64%).
Now. Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport is 54° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 54°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 2 AM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:38 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport, Michigan.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Mt Pleasant (MI), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 unlit | 2,502 ft | 160 ft | Grass | 57° / 237° | 2 mph head, on 05 | 5 mph from the left |
| 09 / 27 | 5,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 91° / 271° | 1 mph head, on 27 | 5 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Mount Pleasant (MOP), Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
54 F at 12 AM; 58 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 49 F at its coolest, 8 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 52 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 61% at 2 PM Thursday to 94% at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the north at 12 AM; at its strongest 11 mph, 3 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.67 inHg at 12 AM, falling 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.56 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 6 PM Thursday; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 7 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.20 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.05 in, in the hour to 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Mount Pleasant: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Mount Pleasant Municipal 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
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/755 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alma [CCOOP]ALMM4
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.8 mi away/768 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
B-3 M-20 at Costabella AveMC118
Beside a road/17.5 mi away/1,004 ft/249 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Pleasant 1.4 NEMI-IS-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/765 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount PleasantMTPM4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/794 ft/39 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.