Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 2 AM, the chance peaking at 83% around 4 AM.
Now. Burnett County Airport is 46° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 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 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Burnett County Airport, Wisconsin.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 39 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
0.50 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 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 3,900 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 45° / 225° | 1 mph head, on 22 | 8 mph from the right |
| 13 / 31 | 3,500 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | 8 mph head, on 31 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Siren (RZN), Burnett County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 10 PM Thursday; 48 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 34 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 47 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 85% at 6 AM Thursday to 100% at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 6 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 16 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.95 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, steady over 3 hours; 0.25 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 9 PM Thursday; 3 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 9 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.47 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.09 in, in the hour to 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Siren: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Burnett County 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
SirenRZN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/988 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Grantsburg - STH 70 west of GrantsburgGRAW3
Beside a road/16.9 mi away/931 ft/58 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lind RAWSLNDW3
A remote fire weather station/21.2 mi away/892 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Siren 5.8 EWI-BT-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/1,015 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GrantsburgGBGW3
At a cooperative observer's station/15.6 mi away/996 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.