Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Olivia Regional Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 52° today.
Now. Olivia Regional Airport is 44° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Olivia Regional Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, 0.47 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 3,501 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 118° / 298° | 20 mph head, on 29 | 12 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Olivia (OVL), Olivia Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
48 F at 7 PM Thursday; 50 F at its warmest, 5 PM Thursday, and 46 F at its coolest, 8 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 71% at 6 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
20 mph from the north northwest at 6 AM; at its strongest 22 mph, 9 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.31 inHg at 6 AM, rising 0.15 inHg over 3 hours; 0.20 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 10 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 200 ft at 8 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Olivia: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Olivia 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
OliviaOVL
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,076 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
T.H.212 - Hector - MP 84.4MN157
Beside a road/9.4 mi away/1,086 ft/10 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Granite Falls 5SE - Upper Sioux CommUPSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.7 mi away/1,003 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Olivia 0.6 NEMN-RV-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/1,081 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Granite FallsGRTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/23.9 mi away/1,053 ft/23 ft below 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.