Citizen station FW4584FW4584
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/1,020 ft/38 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cokato until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cokato is 45° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Cokato, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.62 in in the last 24 hours, 0.65 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cokato, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Cokato, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW4584FW4584
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/1,020 ft/38 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Silver Lake TH 7 Mile Post 1MN002
Beside a road/12.1 mi away/1,023 ft/35 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Maple LakeMGG
At an airfield/14.8 mi away/1,027 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
LitchfieldLFSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 mi away/1,145 ft/87 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/26.4 mi away/975 ft/83 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Cokato 0.3 SMN-WR-174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,070 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LitchfieldLCHM5
At a cooperative observer's station/17.3 mi away/1,125 ft/67 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.8 mi from Cokato, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 41.5 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
The full report of Maple Lake, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Litchfield (LCHM5), 17.3 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. 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.