PipestonePQN
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,736 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pipestone Municipal Airport, Minnesota
Small airport in Pipestone County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From late Friday night 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.
45°
56°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pipestone Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pipestone Municipal Airport is 45° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under cloud. 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 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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.
0UV Low
34Air quality
80%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
45feels39
16mph
Today
Oct 15
5640
86%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5037
15%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5929
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7042
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7350
12mph
45°
56°40°
50°37°
59°29°
65°39°
66°40°
70°42°
73°50°
As of 9:00 PM in Pipestone Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Pipestone Municipal Airport
Index 34, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 36 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)34Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pipestone Municipal Airport
0.46 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.46in
- Last 3 days
- 0.46in
Visibility
How far you can see at Pipestone Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- PQN
- ICAO
- KPQN
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,736 ft
- Serves
- Pipestone
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- PQN
- Wind now
- From 300° at 16 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 unlit | 2,539 ft | 196 ft | Grass | 97° / 277° | 15 mph head, on 27 | 6 mph from the right |
| 18 / 36 | 4,306 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 183° / 3° | 7 mph head, on 36 | 14 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Pipestone Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Pipestone RAWSRPPM5
A remote fire weather station/3.4 mi away/1,722 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
U.S.75 - Trosky - MP 30.3MN154
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/1,759 ft/23 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pipestone 0.6 WNWMN-PS-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,720 ft/16 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PipestonePIPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/1,647 ft/89 ft below 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 Pipestone (PIPM5), 2.5 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:26. measured daily
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Near Pipestone Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Pipestone Municipal Airport
- Quentin Aanenson Airfield - Luverne Municipal AirportLYV, 26 mi
- Slayton Municipal AirportDVP, 26 mi
- Tracy Municipal AirportTKC, 39 mi
- Southwest Minnesota Regional Airport - Marshall/Ryan FieldMML, 40 mi
- Worthington Municipal AirportOTG, 43 mi
- Myers Field AirportCNB, 52 mi
- Windom Municipal AirportMWM, 59 mi
- Granite Falls Municipal Airport / Lenzen-Roe Memorial FieldGDB, 65 mi