Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 47° today.
Now. Fosston Municipal Airport-Anderson Field is 42° and light rain at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 4 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 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 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 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Fosston Municipal Airport-Anderson Field, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Northwestern Minnesota (MN), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.18 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 3,502 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 167° / 347° | 20 mph head, on 34 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Fosston (FSE), Fosston Municipal Airport-Anderson Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
44 F at 10 PM Thursday; 49 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 44 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 43 F, the air 95% saturated; the humidity ran from 68% at 4 PM Thursday to 97% at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
21 mph from the north at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 21 mph, 10 PM Thursday, with a gust of 33 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.09 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 8 PM Thursday; 5 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 600 ft at 8 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.15 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.12 in, in the hour to 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Fosston: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Fosston Municipal Airport-Anderson 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
FosstonFSE
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,276 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/1,365 ft/88 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Glacial Ridge ScanGLRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.5 mi away/1,125 ft/152 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Glacial RidgeS2050
At a soil climate station/24.5 mi away/1,125 ft/152 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fosston 0.7 SSEMN-PK-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,297 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mahnomen 1WMHNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/21.4 mi away/1,203 ft/74 ft below 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.