Temperature
72 F at 5 AM; 72 F at its warmest, 4 AM, and 55 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 72F
- 5 AM
- Highest
- 72F
- 4 AM
- Lowest
- 55F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 62° today.
Now. Marion Municipal Airport is 72° and overcast at 5 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 51° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, with some cloud. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (51%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:44 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Marion Municipal Airport, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Columbus (OH), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 2 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,000 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 60° / 240° | 14 mph head, on 25 | 2 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 3,498 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 120° / 300° | 5 mph head, on 31 | 13 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Marion (MNN), Marion Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
72 F at 5 AM; 72 F at its warmest, 4 AM, and 55 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 67 F, the air 84% saturated; the humidity ran from 63% at 12 PM Thursday to 96% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the southwest at 5 AM; at its strongest 15 mph, 11 PM Thursday, with a gust of 24 mph at 11 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.77 inHg at 5 AM, falling 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.39 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 6 miles at 12 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 800 ft at 11 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Marion: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Marion 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
MarionMNN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/988 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/945 ft/48 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Raymond 4NWRAYO1
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.7 mi away/1,070 ft/77 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Marion 2.6 EOH-MR-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/955 ft/38 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BucyrusBYSO1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/961 ft/32 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Bucyrus (BYSO1), 14.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.