Temperature
43 F at 4 AM; 48 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 43F
- 4 AM
- Highest
- 48F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 43F
- 5 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 58° after 50° today.
Now. Isedor Iverson Airport is 42° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:59 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 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Isedor Iverson Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Central Minnesota (MN), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.29 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 3,400 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 140° / 320° | 14 mph head, on 32 | 5 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from McGregor (HZX), Isedor Iverson Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
43 F at 4 AM; 48 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 40 F, the air 89% saturated; the humidity ran from 87% at 2 PM Thursday to 96% at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the north at 4 AM; at its strongest 20 mph, 3 AM, with a gust of 31 mph at 4 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.18 inHg at 4 AM, rising 0.16 inHg over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 6 PM Thursday; 7 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 11 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.15 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 10 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
McGregor: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Isedor Iverson 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 now4 instruments
McGregorHZX
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,227 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rice Lake Nwr RAWSRLKM5
A remote fire weather station/5.7 mi away/1,240 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
T.H.210 - Tamarack - MP 186.3MN101
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/1,283 ft/55 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sandstone 6 W54932
At a climate reference station/38.3 mi away/1,130 ft/98 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
McGregor 0.9 EMN-AT-54
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/1,236 ft/8 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WrightWRIM5
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/1,276 ft/48 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Wright (WRIM5), 13.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.