Temperature
44 F at 4 AM; 54 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
- Now
- 44F
- 4 AM
- Highest
- 54F
- 1 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 44F
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Austin Municipal Airport, Minnesota
Small airport in Mower County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
50°/39°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 38°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Austin Municipal Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Austin Municipal Airport is 44° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
95%Humidity
47%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
44feels38
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5039
39%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5630
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6239
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6442
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6743
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7148
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7253
13%
44°
50°39°
56°30°
62°39°
64°42°
67°43°
71°48°
72°53°
As of 4:00 AM in Austin Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Austin Municipal Airport
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 33 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone13Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Austin Municipal Airport
1.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.15in
- Last 3 days
- 1.15in
Visibility
How far you can see at Austin Municipal Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- AUM
- ICAO
- KAUM
- IATA
- AUM
- Field elevation
- 1,234 ft
- Serves
- Austin
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- AUM
- Wind now
- From 300° at 13 mph, read 16 Oct, 04:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 unlit | 5,800 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 172° / 352° | 8 mph head, on 35 | 10 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Austin Muni (AUM), Austin Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 43 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 80% at 10 PM Thursday to 100% at 7 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 43F
- 4 AM
- Humidity now
- 96%
- Humidity, range
- 80 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
13 mph from the northwest at 4 AM; at its strongest 18 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 13mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 18mph
- 8 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 29mph
- 8 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.06 inHg at 4 AM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.06inHg
- 4 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.03inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.02inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 1 miles at 4 PM Thursday; 6 miles now.
- Now
- 6mi
- Lowest
- 1mi
- 4 PM Thursday
- 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 400 ft at 2 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 1,000ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 400ft
- 2 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
1.10 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.16 in, in the hour to 12 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.10in
- Wettest hour
- 0.16in
- 12 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 18
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Austin Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Austin 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
Austin MuniAUM
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,230 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Turtle Creek 3 WNW Austin 3NWTRCM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.7 mi away/1,184 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/1,217 ft/17 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Austin 1.9 ENEMN-MW-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/1,205 ft/29 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Austin Waste Water Treatment FacilityASTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/1,194 ft/40 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Austin Waste Water Treatment Facility (ASTM5), 2.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
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Near Austin Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Austin Municipal Airport
- Albert Lea Municipal AirportAEL, 22 mi
- Dodge Center AirportTOB, 25 mi
- Rochester International AirportRST, 27 mi
- Owatonna Degner Regional AirportOWA, 36 mi
- Fillmore County AirportFKA, 38 mi
- Waseca Municipal AirportACQ, 42 mi
- Faribault Municipal Airport-Liz Wall Strohfus FieldFBL, 50 mi
- Stanton AirfieldSYN, 56 mi