At an airfield/0.6 mi away/1,149 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 57° after 48° today.
Now. Falls International Airport is 45° and clear at 2 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:49 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 49 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Falls International Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, North Central Minnesota (MN), 54 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, 0.28 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 2,999 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 42° / 222° | 4 mph head, on 04 | 7 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 7,400 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 136° / 316° | 7 mph head, on 31 | 3 mph from the right |
The 5 instruments nearest Falls International Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.6 mi away/1,149 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
MN-11 Mile Post 199MN027
Beside a road/2.8 mi away/1,117 ft/68 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LITTLE FORK RIVER 10 SW LittleforkLFKM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.5 mi away/1,125 ft/60 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
International Falls 0.4 ESEMN-KC-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,162 ft/23 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Kabetogama Lake Visitor CtrKABM5
At a cooperative observer's station/19.5 mi away/1,198 ft/13 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Kabetogama Lake Visitor Ctr (KABM5), 19.5 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. 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.