West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.0 mi away/1,430 ft/108 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Avoca until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 58° after 49° today.
Now. Avoca is 43° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Avoca, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 56 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.53 in in the last 24 hours, 0.57 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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On the radar over Avoca, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Avoca, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.0 mi away/1,430 ft/108 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SlaytonDVP
At an airfield/7.3 mi away/1,624 ft/86 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dovray MN-30 Mile Post 49MN038
Beside a road/7.9 mi away/1,563 ft/25 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3286EW3286
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.5 mi away/1,547 ft/9 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Avoca 3.2 EMN-MY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/1,524 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake WilsonLKWM5
At a cooperative observer's station/16.0 mi away/1,647 ft/109 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.3 mi from Avoca, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:33 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,400 ft, broken at 2,900 ft, broken at 4,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
43.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 25 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Slayton, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.