Benson MuniBBB
At an airfield/2.6 mi away/1,040 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Benson, Minnesota
City in Swift County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Benton, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wright, Chippewa, Douglas, Lac Qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift, and Yellow Medicine Counties. * WHEN...From late tonight 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.
44°
52°/37°
Overcast·
Feels like 35°·Fresh breeze 22 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Benson until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 52° today.
Now. Benson is 44° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
87%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
44feels35
22mph
Today
Oct 16
5237
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6332
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6742
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6942
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7349
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7251
12%
44°
52°37°
63°32°
67°42°
66°40°
69°42°
73°49°
72°51°
As of 4:00 AM in Benson, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Benson
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 39 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Benson
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Last 3 days
- 0.14in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 21%
Visibility
How far you can see at Benson, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Benson, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Benson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank507of 1,965
T.H.9 - Murdock - MP 24.5MN136
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/1,129 ft/85 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Chippewa River Near Milan05304500
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.1 mi away/960 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW0434FW0434
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.0 mi away/1,130 ft/86 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Benson 0.1 SWMN-SW-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,042 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BensonBENM5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/1,037 ft/7 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Benson Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.6 mi from Benson, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:10 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 2,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
44.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,400 ft.
The wind
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Benson Muni, 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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