Temperature
47 F at 10 PM; 54 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 47 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
- Now
- 47F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 54F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 47F
- 3 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Myers Field Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 60° today.
Now. Myers Field Airport is 46° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Myers Field Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 4,648 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 121° / 301° | 17 mph head, on 30 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Canby (CNB), Myers Field Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 10 PM; 54 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 47 F at its coolest, 3 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 40 F, the air 77% saturated; the humidity ran from 53% at 5 PM to 93% at 7 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
21 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 23 mph, 5 PM, with a gust of 38 mph at 4 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.16 inHg at 10 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 10 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 900 ft at 10 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 4 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Canby: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Myers Field 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
CanbyCNB
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,191 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/3.9 mi away/1,342 ft/148 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Gary 1SE - Mound Spring SinaMPGM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/1,539 ft/345 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CanbyCANM5
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/1,240 ft/46 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Canby 0.7 SMN-YM-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/1,237 ft/43 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.