Mississippi River At Brownsville05386400
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/599 ft/115 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Brownsville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM (60%).
Now. Brownsville is 49° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Brownsville, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Brownsville, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Brownsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mississippi River At Brownsville05386400
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.7 mi away/599 ft/115 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Caledonia MN-44 Mile Post 60MN040
Beside a road/8.0 mi away/925 ft/211 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.4 mi away/742 ft/28 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Winona MuniONA
At an airfield/33.9 mi away/656 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hokah 3.8 SSEMN-HS-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/1,178 ft/464 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hokah WWTPHKHM5
At a water treatment plant/5.8 mi away/682 ft/32 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 33.9 mi from Brownsville, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,100 ft, scattered at 3,700 ft, overcast at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 4,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,100 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Winona Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Hokah WWTP (HKHM5), 5.8 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.