Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 54° after 44° today.
Now. Ely Municipal Airport is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 35° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. Rain is possible Thursday (35%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:47 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, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ely Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Minnesota Arrowhead (MN), 57 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
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 / 30 | 5,596 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 120° / 300° | 7 mph head, on 30 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Ely (ELO), Ely Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
46 F at 10 PM Thursday; 48 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 46 F, the air 99% saturated; the humidity ran from 90% at 7 AM Thursday to 99% at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the north northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 6 mph, 10 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.92 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.26 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 200 ft at 12 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.25 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.05 in, in the hour to 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Ely: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Ely Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ElyELO
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/1,424 ft/32 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ely RAWSELOM5
A remote fire weather station/0.4 mi away/1,424 ft/32 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,473 ft/17 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ely 6.4 SSWMN-SL-198
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/1,447 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ely UsfsELYM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,437 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ely Usfs (ELYM5), 5.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.