Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport is 44° and light rain at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 20 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 3 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 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:04 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 54 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Central Minnesota (MN), 10 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
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,512 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 53° / 233° | 14 mph head, on 05 | 19 mph from the left |
| 12 / 30 | 4,080 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 126° / 306° | 14 mph head, on 30 | 19 mph from the right |
| 16 / 34 unlit | 7,100 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 163° / 343° | 23 mph head, on 34 | 7 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Brainerd (BRD), Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
46 F at 10 PM Thursday; 50 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 37 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 40 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 68% at 7 PM Thursday to 96% at 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
11 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 14 mph, 7 PM Thursday, with a gust of 25 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.20 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 9 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 400 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
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Brainerd: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Brainerd Lakes Regional 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 now3 instruments
BrainerdBRD
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,220 ft/12 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Brainerd RAWSBIRM5
A remote fire weather station/0.2 mi away/1,204 ft/28 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
T.H.371 - Nisswa - MP 46.2MN170
Beside a road/11.6 mi away/1,201 ft/31 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Brainerd 4.8 NEMN-CW-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,232 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrainerdBRAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,178 ft/54 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Brainerd (BRAM5), 5.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.