Beside a road/11.2 mi away/1,354 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 48° today.
Now. Blackduck is 37° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 13 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 3 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 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:59 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 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Blackduck, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Northwestern Minnesota (MN), 51 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Blackduck, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Blackduck, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/1,354 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.2 mi away/1,352 ft/45 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station KB0KQAKB0KQA
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.8 mi away/1,361 ft/36 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BemidjiBJI
At an airfield/23.6 mi away/1,378 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Blackduck 0.6 NMN-BM-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,402 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KelliherKLLM5
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/1,388 ft/9 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.6 mi from Blackduck, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,200 ft, broken at 1,700 ft, overcast at 3,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,200 ft; visibility 7 mi.
40.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Bemidji, 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.