Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Rush City Regional Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rush City Regional Airport is 45° and drizzle at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Rush City Regional Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.39 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 4,401 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 160° / 340° | 2 mph head, on 34 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Rush City (ROS), Rush City Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 10 PM Thursday; 48 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 42 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 43 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 86% at 10 PM Thursday to 97% at 7 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
8 mph from the west at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 8 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 17 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.98 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.22 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 8 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 10 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.34 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.08 in, in the hour to 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Rush City: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Rush City 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 now4 instruments
Rush CityROS
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/922 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rush City I-35 Mile Post 157MN004
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/923 ft/3 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mora - Dnr Fire WxJMRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/981 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sandstone 6 W54932
At a climate reference station/28.5 mi away/1,130 ft/204 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rush City 0.6 NEMN-CG-55
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/917 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
In a park or preserve/15.6 mi away/840 ft/86 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.