At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,411 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Windom Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Windom Municipal Airport is 46° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (68%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Windom Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 56 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.56 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 3,598 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 9 mph head, on 35 | 16 mph from the left |
The 5 instruments nearest Windom 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,411 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
T.H.60 - Mountain Lake - MP 48MN150
Beside a road/5.5 mi away/1,388 ft/22 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.6 mi away/1,430 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WindomWDOM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/1,365 ft/45 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Windom 0.4 WMN-CD-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/1,363 ft/47 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Windom (WDOM5), 2.8 miles from here, read 7 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.