T.H.212 - Hector - MP 84.4MN157
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/1,086 ft/18 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Buffalo Lake, Minnesota
City in Renville County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, and southwest Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
43°
51°/39°
Overcast·
Feels like 35°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Buffalo Lake until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 51° today.
Now. Buffalo Lake is 43° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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
18Air quality
91%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
43feels35
27%
17mph
Today
Oct 16
5139
65%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5931
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6642
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6843
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7350
16%
Thu
Oct 22
7153
17%
43°
51°39°
59°31°
66°42°
65°42°
68°43°
73°50°
71°53°
As of 3:00 AM in Buffalo Lake, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Buffalo Lake
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 42 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone13Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buffalo Lake
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.57in
- Last 3 days
- 0.58in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 98%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buffalo Lake, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Buffalo Lake, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Buffalo Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,395of 1,965
HutchinsonHCD
At an airfield/14.3 mi away/1,060 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fairfax 5S - Fort RidgelyFRGM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/979 ft/89 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9341FW9341
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.0 mi away/1,006 ft/62 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hector 4.3 NMN-RV-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/1,126 ft/58 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Brownton WWTPBWNM5
At a water treatment plant/13.7 mi away/1,024 ft/44 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at T.H.212 - Hector - MP 84.4, drawn
The nearest instrument reporting now, 11.1 mi from Buffalo Lake, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:20 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
45.0 F with a dew point of 41.9 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 wind
From the northwest (322 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 34 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Brownton WWTP (BWNM5), 13.7 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Buffalo Lake
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Hectorcity, 5 mi
- Stewartcity, 7 mi
- Browntoncity, 13 mi
- Bird Islandcity, 14 mi
- Cosmoscity, 14 mi
- Cedar Millscity, 15 mi
- Gibboncity, 15 mi
- Fairfaxcity, 16 mi
- Hutchinsoncity, 16 mi
- Biscaycity, 18 mi
- Oliviacity, 18 mi
- Winthropcity, 18 mi