Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,211 ft/51 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Ceylon until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ceylon is 34° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:21 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.
As of 1:00 AM in Ceylon, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 57 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.96 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ceylon, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Ceylon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/10.3 mi away/1,211 ft/51 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/13.3 mi away/1,161 ft/101 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2295FW2295
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.2 mi away/1,458 ft/196 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fairmont 8.9 SMN-MT-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.8 mi away/1,218 ft/44 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sherburn 3WSWSHRM5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/1,319 ft/57 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.3 mi from Ceylon, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 12:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
35.0 F with a dew point of 31.0 F, 85 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Fairmont Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.