U.S.71 - Clarissa - MP 197.5MN121
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/1,312 ft/14 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Clarissa until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 57° after 48° today.
Now. Clarissa is 44° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Clarissa, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Clarissa, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Clarissa, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
U.S.71 - Clarissa - MP 197.5MN121
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/1,312 ft/14 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WLN03 129N36W15BBBB 02 Belle River 0000708358455927095123101
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.6 mi away/1,348 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Long Prairie14Y
At an airfield/16.3 mi away/1,332 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0418GW0418
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.5 mi away/1,274 ft/52 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clarissa 0.1 ESEMN-TD-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/1,335 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Long PrairieLNGM5
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/1,355 ft/29 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.3 mi from Clarissa, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,300 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Long Prairie, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Long Prairie (LNGM5), 11.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.