Temperature
44 F at 3 AM; 50 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 8 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 44F
- 3 AM
- Highest
- 50F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 43F
- 8 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Glenwood Municipal Airport, Minnesota
Small airport in Pope County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Benton, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wright, Chippewa, Douglas, Lac Qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift, and Yellow Medicine Counties. * WHEN...From late tonight through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
50°/38°
Overcast·
Feels like 36°·Fresh breeze 20 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Glenwood Municipal Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 50° today.
Now. Glenwood Municipal Airport is 44° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 2 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
88%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
44feels36
20mph
Today
Oct 16
5038
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
6032
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6443
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6442
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6643
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7049
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7050
10%
44°
50°38°
60°32°
64°43°
64°42°
66°43°
70°49°
70°50°
As of 3:00 AM in Glenwood Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Glenwood Municipal Airport
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 58 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 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 Glenwood Municipal Airport
0.09 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
- 0.09in
- Last 3 days
- 0.09in
Visibility
How far you can see at Glenwood Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- GHW
- ICAO
- KGHW
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,393 ft
- Serves
- Glenwood
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- GHW
- Wind now
- From 350° at 20 mph, read 16 Oct, 03:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 unlit | 2,778 ft | 196 ft | Grass | 57° / 237° | 8 mph head, on 05 | 18 mph from the left |
| 15 / 33 | 4,500 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 162° / 342° | 20 mph head, on 33 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Glenwood (GHW), Glenwood Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 42 F, the air 92% saturated; the humidity ran from 64% at 5 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 42F
- 3 AM
- Humidity now
- 92%
- Humidity, range
- 64 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
21 mph from the north at 3 AM; at its strongest 27 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 38 mph at 5 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 21mph
- from the north
- Strongest
- 27mph
- 4 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 38mph
- 5 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.22 inHg at 3 AM, rising 0.12 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.22inHg
- 3 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.12inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.10inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 12 AM; 9 miles now.
- Now
- 9mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 12 AM
- 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 500 ft at 12 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 1,900ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 500ft
- 12 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.07 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 4 AM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Wettest hour
- 0.02in
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 14
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Glenwood: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Glenwood 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 now3 instruments
GlenwoodGHW
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,394 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alexandria I-94 Mile Post 104MN015
Beside a road/13.6 mi away/1,440 ft/47 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Miltona 3SW - Lake Carlos SPLCLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.0 mi away/1,402 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Glenwood 1.2 EMN-PP-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/1,393 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glenwood 1NGLWM5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.6 mi away/1,414 ft/21 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Glenwood 1N (GLWM5), 3.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
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Near Glenwood Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Glenwoodcity, 3 mi
- Long Beachcity, 5 mi
- Villardcity, 5 mi
- Sedancity, 6 mi
- Westportcity, 9 mi
- Foradacity, 10 mi
- Starbuckcity, 10 mi
- Lowrycity, 11 mi
- Brootencity, 14 mi
- West Unioncity, 16 mi
- Farwellcity, 16 mi
- Alexandriacity, 17 mi
Airports near Glenwood Municipal Airport
- Chandler FieldAXN, 16 mi
- Sauk Centre Municipal AirportD39, 19 mi
- Benson Municipal AirportBBB, 27 mi
- Todd Field14Y, 28 mi
- Morris Municipal Airport Charlie Schmidt FieldMOX, 32 mi
- Paynesville Municipal AirportPEX, 34 mi
- Willmar Municipal Airport John L Rice Field (2006)BDH, 37 mi
- Elbow Lake Municipal - Pride of the Prairie AirportY63, 40 mi