Temperature
45 F at 5 AM; 46 F at its warmest, 1 AM, and 42 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 45F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 46F
- 1 AM
- Lowest
- 42F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Mora Municipal Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mora Municipal Airport is 45° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 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 Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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.
As of 5:00 AM in Mora Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.27 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 unlit | 3,152 ft | 80 ft | GRE | 117° / 297° | 4 mph head, on 29 | 6 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 | 4,794 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 172° / 352° | 7 mph head, on 35 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Mora (JMR), Mora Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 5 AM; 46 F at its warmest, 1 AM, and 42 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 39 F, the air 81% saturated; the humidity ran from 81% at 5 AM to 100% at 9 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the north at 5 AM; at its strongest 12 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 23 mph at 5 AM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.22 inHg at 5 AM, rising 0.14 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 7 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 12 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.20 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.07 in, in the hour to 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Mora: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Mora 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 now4 instruments
MoraJMR
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,014 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mora - Dnr Fire WxJMRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/981 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hinckley I-35 Mile Post 181MN077
Beside a road/17.0 mi away/1,033 ft/21 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sandstone 6 W54932
At a climate reference station/20.5 mi away/1,130 ft/118 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mora 0.4 SEMN-KB-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,023 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Knife Rvr Nr Mora MnMRAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/1,020 ft/8 ft above 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.