Citizen station DW8344DW8344
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/927 ft/25 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Center City until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Center City is 38° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 Thursday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:04 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Center City, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, 0.99 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Center City, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Center City, 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
Citizen station DW8344DW8344
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/927 ft/25 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
William O'Brien Spring Near ScandiaWOBM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.9 mi away/795 ft/157 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rush City I-35 Mile Post 157MN004
Beside a road/19.1 mi away/923 ft/29 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rush CityROS
At an airfield/21.9 mi away/922 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Center City 0.8 WSWMN-CG-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/894 ft/58 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Forest Lake 5NEFORM5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/948 ft/4 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.9 mi from Center City, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 11,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
36.0 F with a dew point of 28.2 F, 73 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 11,000 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Rush City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Forest Lake 5NE (FORM5), 6.0 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.