Beside a road/11.2 mi away/1,064 ft/160 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Buckman until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Buckman is 34° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west-southwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 Thursday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Buckman, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Buckman, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Buckman, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/1,064 ft/160 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Little Falls - Dnr Fire WxLXLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.5 mi away/1,142 ft/82 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Little FallsLXL
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/1,152 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW3631GW3631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.7 mi away/1,098 ft/126 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/33.8 mi away/975 ft/249 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Pierz 4.3 WSWMN-MR-50
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/1,127 ft/97 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RiceRCEM5
At a cooperative observer's station/11.1 mi away/1,079 ft/145 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Buckman, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
30.2 F with a dew point of 28.4 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Little Falls, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Rice (RCEM5), 11.1 miles from here, read 16 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.