Temperature
45 F at 10 PM; 51 F at its warmest, 5 PM, and 45 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 45F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 51F
- 5 PM
- Lowest
- 45F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Redwood Falls Municipal Airport, Minnesota
Medium airport in Redwood County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * 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°
57°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 16 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Redwood Falls Municipal Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Redwood Falls Municipal Airport is 45° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 52°. Rain is possible tomorrow (48%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 south-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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
86%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
45feels38
16mph
Today
Oct 15
5741
75%
20mph
Fri
Oct 16
5239
48%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
6130
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6742
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6642
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7550
15%
45°
57°41°
52°39°
61°30°
67°42°
66°42°
70°43°
75°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Redwood Falls Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Redwood Falls Municipal Airport
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 28 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
- 33TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Redwood Falls Municipal Airport
0.37 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.37in
- Last 3 days
- 0.37in
Visibility
How far you can see at Redwood Falls Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- RWF
- ICAO
- KRWF
- IATA
- RWF
- Field elevation
- 1,024 ft
- Serves
- Redwood Falls
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- RWF
- Wind now
- From 290° at 17 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 unlit | 2,081 ft | 200 ft | Grass | 55° / 235° | 10 mph head, on 23 | 14 mph from the right |
| 12 / 30 | 4,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 128° / 308° | 16 mph head, on 30 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Redwood Fall (RWF), Redwood Falls Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 41 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 61% at 6 PM to 95% at 9 AM.
- Dew point now
- 41F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 86%
- Humidity, range
- 61 to 95%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
16 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 17 mph, 9 PM, with a gust of 33 mph at 9 PM.
- Now
- 16mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 17mph
- 9 PM
- Highest gust
- 33mph
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.09 inHg at 10 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.09inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- -0.10inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 12 PM; 7 miles now.
- Now
- 7mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 12 PM
- 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 600 ft at 11 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 600ft
- 11 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.14 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.07 in, in the hour to 12 PM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.14in
- Wettest hour
- 0.07in
- 12 PM
- Hours with some
- 15
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Redwood Fall: 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 Redwood Falls 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
Redwood FallRWF
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,020 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Morton MN-19 Mile Post 78MN031
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/840 ft/184 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fairfax 5S - Fort RidgelyFRGM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.9 mi away/979 ft/45 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Redwood Falls 0.8 ESEMN-RW-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/1,019 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lamberton SW Exp StaLAMM5
At a cooperative observer's station/24.2 mi away/1,135 ft/111 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 Lamberton SW Exp Sta (LAMM5), 24.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Redwood Falls Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Redwood Falls Municipal Airport
- Olivia Regional AirportOVL, 16 mi
- Granite Falls Municipal Airport / Lenzen-Roe Memorial FieldGDB, 27 mi
- New Ulm Municipal AirportULM, 33 mi
- Tracy Municipal AirportTKC, 33 mi
- Southwest Minnesota Regional Airport - Marshall/Ryan FieldMML, 37 mi
- Willmar Municipal Airport John L Rice Field (2006)BDH, 39 mi
- Hutchinson Municipal Butler FieldHCD, 41 mi
- Montevideo Chippewa County AirportMVE, 42 mi