TracyTKC
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,339 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tracy Municipal Airport, Minnesota
Small airport in Lyon 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°
57°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 37°·Fresh breeze 21 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Tracy Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 57° today.
Now. Tracy Municipal Airport is 45° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° 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 49°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
76%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
45feels37
21mph
Today
Oct 15
5741
87%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
4939
43%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
21mph
Sun
Oct 18
6543
21mph
Mon
Oct 19
6543
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7352
16%
14mph
45°
57°41°
49°39°
59°32°
65°43°
65°43°
69°43°
73°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Tracy Municipal Airport, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Tracy Municipal Airport
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 35 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good18.1 mi
- Ozone19Good19 ppb18.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)18Good18.1 mi
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 Tracy Municipal Airport
0.36 in in the last 24 hours, 0.37 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.36in
- Last 3 days
- 0.37in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 97%
Visibility
How far you can see at Tracy Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- TKC
- ICAO
- KTKC
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,340 ft
- Serves
- Tracy
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- TKC
- Wind now
- From 310° at 23 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 / 29 | 3,098 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 119° / 299° | 23 mph head, on 29 | 4 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 unlit | 1,778 ft | 200 ft | Grass | 180° / 0° | 15 mph head, on 35 | 18 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Tracy 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
T.H.68 - Milroy - MP 59.0MN155
Beside a road/12.4 mi away/1,093 ft/247 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.9 mi away/1,430 ft/90 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tracy 0.2 ENEMN-LY-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,381 ft/41 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TracyTCYM5
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/1,401 ft/61 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 Tracy (TCYM5), 1.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Tracy Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Tracy Municipal Airport
- Southwest Minnesota Regional Airport - Marshall/Ryan FieldMML, 17 mi
- Slayton Municipal AirportDVP, 20 mi
- Redwood Falls Municipal AirportRWF, 33 mi
- Windom Municipal AirportMWM, 34 mi
- Granite Falls Municipal Airport / Lenzen-Roe Memorial FieldGDB, 35 mi
- Pipestone Municipal AirportPQN, 39 mi
- Worthington Municipal AirportOTG, 41 mi
- Olivia Regional AirportOVL, 46 mi