Temperature
40 F at 2 AM; 50 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 40 F at its coolest, 2 AM.
- Now
- 40F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 50F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 40F
- 2 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field, Minnesota
Small airport in Polk County, Minnesota39°
48°/34°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 29°·Fresh breeze 20 mph N
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 48° today.
Now. Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field is 39° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 50 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
88%Humidity
45%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
39feels29
20mph
Today
Oct 16
4834
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5934
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6545
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6236
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6640
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
6849
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
6548
10%
39°
48°34°
59°34°
65°45°
62°36°
66°40°
68°49°
65°48°
As of 3:00 AM in Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Red River Valley North (MN), 41 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field
0.08 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.08in
- Last 3 days
- 0.08in
Visibility
How far you can see at Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CKN
- ICAO
- KCKN
- IATA
- CKN
- Field elevation
- 899 ft
- Serves
- Crookston
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CKN
- Wind now
- From 340° at 20 mph, read 16 Oct, 02:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 4,300 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 133° / 313° | 18 mph head, on 31 | 9 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 unlit | 2,977 ft | 200 ft | Grass | 181° / 1° | 19 mph head, on 35 | 7 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Crookston Muni (CKN), Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 36 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 67% at 2 PM Thursday to 95% at 8 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 36F
- 2 AM
- Humidity now
- 86%
- Humidity, range
- 67 to 95%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
21 mph from the north northwest at 2 AM; at its strongest 26 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 36 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 21mph
- from the north northwest
- Strongest
- 26mph
- 9 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 36mph
- 10 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.39 inHg at 2 AM, rising 0.19 inHg over 3 hours; 0.30 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.39inHg
- 2 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.19inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.30inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 5 miles at 11 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 5mi
- 11 AM 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 800 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 800ft
- 8 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 21
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.04 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 7 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Wettest hour
- 0.02in
- 7 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 5
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Crookston Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Crookston Municipal Kirkwood 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/896 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
East Grand Forks US-2 Mile Post 8MN060
Beside a road/13.9 mi away/838 ft/61 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Clearwater River AT Red Lake Falls/Clearwater River [CCOOP]RDLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.9 mi away/1,020 ft/121 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Glacial RidgeS2050
At a soil climate station/18.6 mi away/1,125 ft/226 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Crookston NW Exp STNCRNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/886 ft/13 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Crookston 0.6 ENEMN-PK-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/891 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Crookstoncity, 4 mi
- Fishercity, 9 mi
- Red Lake Fallscity, 16 mi
- Climaxcity, 18 mi
- East Grand Forkscity, 20 mi
- Beltramicity, 21 mi
- St. Hilairecity, 22 mi
- Nielsvillecity, 23 mi
- Mentorcity, 24 mi
- Warrencity, 26 mi
- Fertilecity, 27 mi
- Plummercity, 27 mi
Airports near Crookston Municipal Kirkwood Field
- Thief River Falls Regional AirportTVF, 25 mi
- Fosston Municipal Airport-Anderson FieldFSE, 43 mi
- Mahnomen County Airport3N8, 51 mi
- Hallock Municipal AirportHCO, 65 mi
- Moorhead Municipal AirportJKJ, 69 mi
- Detroit Lakes AirportDTL, 78 mi
- Bemidji Regional AirportBJI, 82 mi
- Roseau Municipal Rudy Billberg FieldROX, 82 mi