At an airfield/2.0 mi away/1,020 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Appleton, Minnesota
City in Swift 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°
51°/38°
Light rain·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Appleton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 51° today.
Now. Appleton is 45° and light rain at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
100%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
45feels38
14%
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5138
21%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
6331
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6943
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7041
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7252
13%
45°
51°38°
63°31°
69°43°
66°40°
70°41°
74°50°
72°52°
As of 12:00 AM in Appleton, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Appleton
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 38 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
- Ozone16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Appleton
0.04 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
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.04in
Visibility
How far you can see at Appleton, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Appleton, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Appleton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,233of 1,965
U.S.12 - Holloway - MP 27.0MN134
Beside a road/7.7 mi away/1,033 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Chippewa River Near Milan05304500
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/960 ft/57 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station KC0PSRKC0PSR
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/1,082 ft/65 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Appleton 4.2 WMN-BS-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/978 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Milan 1NWMIAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/1,017 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Appleton Municip, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.0 mi from Appleton, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Broken at 1,600 ft, overcast at 2,200 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 9 mi.
The air
46.0 F with a dew point of 46.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
The wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 16 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Appleton Municip, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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