Temperature
37 F at 8 AM; 49 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 37 F at its coolest, 8 AM.
- Now
- 37F
- 8 AM
- Highest
- 49F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 37F
- 8 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Orr Regional Airport, Minnesota
Small airport in St. Louis County, Minnesota36°
48°/32°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 29°·Gentle breeze 11 mph N
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 48° today.
Now. Orr Regional Airport is 36° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 Sunday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:50 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 50 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
48Air quality
87%Humidity
75%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
36feels29
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
4832
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
5929
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6542
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6334
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6435
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6542
17%
Thu
Oct 22
6445
18%
36°
48°32°
59°29°
65°42°
63°34°
64°35°
65°42°
64°45°
As of 8:00 AM in Orr Regional Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Orr Regional Airport
Index 48, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, North Central Minnesota (MN), 18 miles off.
48Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)48Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 62, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 62YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Orr Regional Airport
0.29 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.29in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
Visibility
How far you can see at Orr Regional Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 10 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- ORB
- ICAO
- KORB
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,311 ft
- Serves
- Orr
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- ORB
- Wind now
- From 330° at 13 mph, read 16 Oct, 07:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 4,000 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 138° / 318° | 13 mph head, on 31 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Orr (ORB), Orr Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 33 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 86% at 8 AM to 99% at 6 PM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 33F
- 8 AM
- Humidity now
- 86%
- Humidity, range
- 86 to 99%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
5 mph at 8 AM; at its strongest 9 mph, 7 AM, with a gust of 21 mph at 6 AM.
- Now
- 5mph
- Strongest
- 9mph
- 7 AM
- Highest gust
- 21mph
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.38 inHg at 8 AM, rising 0.12 inHg over 3 hours; 0.32 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.38inHg
- 8 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.12inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.32inHg
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 300 ft at 7 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 2,800ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 7 PM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 24
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.30 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.09 in, in the hour to 10 PM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.30in
- Wettest hour
- 0.09in
- 10 PM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 17
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Orr: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Orr Regional 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
OrrORB
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,302 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Orr RAWSORBM5
A remote fire weather station/0.2 mi away/1,339 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/9.4 mi away/1,342 ft/31 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Saunders Bay 0.4 EMN-SL-475
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/1,290 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Orr 3ELEIM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,365 ft/54 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Orr 3E (LEIM5), 5.6 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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Near Orr Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Orr Regional Airport
- Cook Municipal AirportCQM, 15 mi
- Scotts Seaplane BaseCDD, 24 mi
- Bigfork Municipal AirportFOZ, 40 mi
- Range Regional AirportHIB, 44 mi
- Eveleth-Virginia Municipal AirportEVM, 44 mi
- Falls International AirportINL, 46 mi
- Ely Municipal AirportELO, 49 mi
- Grand Rapids Itasca Co-Gordon Newstrom fieldGPZ, 63 mi