Temperature
40 F at 6 AM; 50 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 40F
- 6 AM
- Highest
- 50F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 39F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 49° today.
Now. Baudette International Airport is 39° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 4 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 65°, 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 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:53 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 48 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Baudette International Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Northwestern Minnesota (MN), 71 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 10 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 5,498 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 121° / 301° | 9 mph head, on 30 | 11 mph from the right |
| 13W / 31W unlit | 6,000 ft | 120 ft | Water | - | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Baudette (BDE), Baudette International Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
40 F at 6 AM; 50 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 31 F, the air 70% saturated; the humidity ran from 70% at 6 AM to 96% at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the north northwest at 7 AM; at its strongest 20 mph, 12 AM, with a gust of 38 mph at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.46 inHg at 7 AM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.42 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 4 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 800 ft at 6 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.06 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 2 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Baudette: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Baudette International 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
BaudetteBDE
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,079 ft/7 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.0 mi away/1,109 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
T.H.72 - Baudette - MP 67.85MN116
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/1,093 ft/7 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Baudette 2.5 NWMN-LW-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/1,086 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BaudetteBAUM5
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/1,060 ft/26 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Baudette (BAUM5), 1.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 15:00. 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.