Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Chandler Field until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. Chandler Field is 44° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 12 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 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 10 hours 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Chandler Field, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 41 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 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 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 4,098 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 49° / 229° | 0 mph head, on 04 | 16 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 5,099 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 139° / 319° | 16 mph head, on 31 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Alexandria (AXN), Chandler Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
44 F at 10 PM Thursday; 51 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 41 F, the air 89% saturated; the humidity ran from 61% at 5 PM Thursday to 94% at 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 21 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 39 mph at 6 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.13 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 8 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 700 ft at 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.04 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Alexandria: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Chandler Field, 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
AlexandriaAXN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,421 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alexandria I-94 Mile Post 104MN015
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/1,440 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Miltona 3SW - Lake Carlos SPLCLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.0 mi away/1,402 ft/23 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alexandria 0.9 WMN-DS-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,422 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glenwood 1NGLWM5
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/1,414 ft/11 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Glenwood 1N (GLWM5), 13.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.