Beside a road/2.5 mi away/1,348 ft/7 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Canton, Minnesota
City in Fillmore County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures ranging from the low 20s to low 30s. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until 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.
31°
57°/31°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 26°·Light breeze 6 mph SW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Canton until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Canton is 31° and mostly clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:10 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
27Air quality
89%Humidity
29%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
31feels26
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 17
5731
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6242
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6442
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6643
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6948
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7251
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7252
overcast
31°
57°31°
62°42°
64°42°
66°43°
69°48°
72°51°
72°52°
As of 6:00 AM in Canton, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Canton
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 41 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Ozone8Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 16
- 26TodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Canton
0.18 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.18in
- Last 3 days
- 1.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 16%
Visibility
How far you can see at Canton, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Canton, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Canton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,422of 2,026
At an airfield/16.1 mi away/1,276 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Root River Near Houston05385000
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.4 mi away/667 ft/674 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.2 mi away/742 ft/599 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Harmony 0.3 SMN-FM-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/1,333 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MabelMABM5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.5 mi away/1,112 ft/229 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Preston (AWOS), drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.1 mi from Canton, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
33.8 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
The wind
From the southwest (220 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Preston (AWOS), in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mabel (MABM5), 8.5 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:45. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.