Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Hutchinson Municipal Butler Field until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 51° today.
Now. Hutchinson Municipal Butler Field is 43° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Hutchinson Municipal Butler Field, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.42 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 33 | 4,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 152° / 332° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Hutchinson (HCD), Hutchinson Municipal Butler Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
46 F at 7 AM Thursday; 46 F at its warmest, 6 AM Thursday, and 45 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 43 F, the air 87% saturated; the humidity ran from 87% at 6 AM Thursday to 93% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Calm at 7 AM Thursday; at its strongest 3 mph, 3 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.13 inHg at 7 AM Thursday, falling 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,200 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 4 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Hutchinson: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Hutchinson Municipal Butler 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 now3 instruments
HutchinsonHCD
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,060 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Silver Lake TH 7 Mile Post 1MN002
Beside a road/13.3 mi away/1,023 ft/39 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LitchfieldLFSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.3 mi away/1,145 ft/83 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hutchinson 0.4 WMN-MC-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,082 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Brownton WWTPBWNM5
At a water treatment plant/9.0 mi away/1,024 ft/38 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Brownton WWTP (BWNM5), 9.0 miles from here, read 13 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.