Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 48° today.
Now. Mahnomen County Airport is 41° and light drizzle at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 52 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Mahnomen County Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Red River Valley South (MN), 42 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.37 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 3,210 ft | 150 ft | Turf | 168° / 348° | 23 mph head, on 35 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Mahnomen (3N8), Mahnomen County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
44 F at 10 PM Thursday; 49 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 44 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 69% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
20 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 10 PM Thursday, with a gust of 33 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.12 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 10 PM Thursday; 4 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 9 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.15 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.07 in, in the hour to 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Mahnomen: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Mahnomen 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 now4 instruments
Mahnomen3N8
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,231 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mahnomen US-59 Mile Post 296MN044
Beside a road/0.9 mi away/1,225 ft/19 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Becker State Wildlife Management Area DDMLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.8 mi away/1,365 ft/121 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Glacial RidgeS2050
At a soil climate station/35.2 mi away/1,125 ft/119 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Mahnomen 1WMHNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/1,203 ft/41 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Waubun 10.9 ENEMN-MH-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/1,484 ft/240 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.