OrtonvilleVVV
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,099 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 58° today.
Now. Ortonville Municipal Airport/Martinson Field is 47° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Ortonville Municipal Airport/Martinson Field, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 45 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.08 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 2,175 ft | 275 ft | Grass | 47° / 227° | 2 mph head, on 22 | 20 mph from the right |
| 16 / 34 | 3,417 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 169° / 349° | 16 mph head, on 34 | 13 mph from the left |
The 5 instruments nearest Ortonville Municipal Airport/Martinson Field, 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
OrtonvilleVVV
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,099 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
U.S.75 - Ortonville - MP 132.7MN137
Beside a road/3.1 mi away/1,063 ft/37 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Stone NwrBSTM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.1 mi away/951 ft/149 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ortonville 1NORVM5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.3 mi away/1,089 ft/11 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ortonville 0.4 NMN-BS-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,066 ft/34 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.