Temperature
48 F at 2 AM; 51 F at its warmest, 6 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 3 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 48F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 51F
- 6 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 43F
- 3 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Maple Lake Municipal Airport, Minnesota
Small airport in Wright 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.
47°
53°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Maple Lake Municipal Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Maple Lake Municipal Airport is 47° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
79%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
47feels41
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5340
64%
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
6033
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6642
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6543
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
17%
Thu
Oct 22
7254
22%
47°
53°40°
60°33°
66°42°
65°43°
69°43°
72°50°
72°54°
As of 2:00 AM in Maple Lake Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Maple Lake Municipal Airport
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 23 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good15.8 mi
- Ozone18Good15 ppb15.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Maple Lake Municipal Airport
0.28 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.28in
- Last 3 days
- 0.28in
Visibility
How far you can see at Maple Lake Municipal Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MGG
- ICAO
- KMGG
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,028 ft
- Serves
- Maple Lake
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MGG
- Wind now
- From 310° at 13 mph, read 16 Oct, 01:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04W / 22W unlit | 8,000 ft | 2,000 ft | Water | - | - | - |
| 10 / 28 unlit | 2,796 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 102° / 282° | 11 mph head, on 28 | 6 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Maple Lake (MGG), Maple Lake 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 78% saturated; the humidity ran from 65% at 8 PM Thursday to 89% at 3 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 42F
- 2 AM
- Humidity now
- 78%
- Humidity, range
- 65 to 89%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
12 mph from the northwest at 2 AM; at its strongest 12 mph, 1 AM, with a gust of 24 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 12mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 12mph
- 1 AM
- Highest gust
- 24mph
- 8 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.07 inHg at 2 AM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.07inHg
- 2 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.03inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.10inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 3 miles at 5 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 3mi
- 5 PM Thursday
- 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 400 ft at 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 1,600ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 400ft
- 10 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.25 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.06 in, in the hour to 1 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.25in
- Wettest hour
- 0.06in
- 1 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 9
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Maple Lake: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Maple Lake 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
Maple LakeMGG
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,027 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Clearwater I-94 Mile Post 180MN017
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/995 ft/33 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/12.8 mi away/975 ft/53 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
St Cloud StateSCSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.2 mi away/1,040 ft/12 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Maple Lake 1.3 NEMN-WR-130
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,035 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DelanoDELM5
At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/928 ft/100 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Maple Lake Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Maple Lakecity, 1 mi
- Silver Creekcommunity, 6 mi
- Buffalocity, 7 mi
- Annandalecity, 7 mi
- Monticellocity, 10 mi
- South Havencity, 12 mi
- Montrosecity, 12 mi
- Waverlycity, 12 mi
- Clearwatercity, 12 mi
- Fairhavencommunity, 13 mi
- Beckercity, 13 mi
- Howard Lakecity, 13 mi
Airports near Maple Lake Municipal Airport
- Buffalo Municipal AirportCFE, 9 mi
- Saint Cloud Regional AirportSTC, 22 mi
- Litchfield Municipal AirportLJF, 27 mi
- Princeton Municipal AirportPNM, 29 mi
- Hutchinson Municipal Butler FieldHCD, 32 mi
- Crystal AirportMIC, 33 mi
- Glencoe Municipal AirportGYL, 33 mi
- Paynesville Municipal AirportPEX, 38 mi