Temperature
45 F at 12 AM; 48 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 41 F at its coolest, 2 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 45F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 48F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 41F
- 2 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cambridge Municipal Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cambridge Municipal Airport is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Cambridge Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, 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 Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 4,001 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 162° / 342° | 6 mph head, on 34 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Cambridge Muni (CBG), Cambridge Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 12 AM; 48 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 41 F at its coolest, 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 42 F, the air 88% saturated; the humidity ran from 82% at 10 PM Thursday to 100% at 10 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
7 mph from the northwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 10 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 21 mph at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.00 inHg at 12 AM, 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 12 PM Thursday; 9 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 11 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.34 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.07 in, in the hour to 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Cambridge Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Cambridge 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/942 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rush City I-35 Mile Post 157MN004
Beside a road/14.4 mi away/923 ft/22 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Carlos Avery - Dnr Fire WxCAVM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.3 mi away/896 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/34.6 mi away/975 ft/30 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Cambridge 1.2 WMN-IS-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/945 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CambridgeCMBM5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/948 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.