Dodge CenterTOB
At an airfield/1.6 mi away/1,306 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dodge Center, Minnesota
City in Dodge County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest into west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
43°
49°/39°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Dodge Center until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 6 AM (50%).
Now. Dodge Center is 43° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
94%Humidity
5%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
43feels36
14mph
Today
Oct 16
4939
77%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5530
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6339
20mph
Mon
Oct 19
6443
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6842
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7149
16%
Thu
Oct 22
7153
22%
43°
49°39°
55°30°
63°39°
64°43°
68°42°
71°49°
71°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Dodge Center, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Dodge Center
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 20 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good20.5 mi
- Ozone16Good19 ppb20.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dodge Center
0.84 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.84in
- Last 3 days
- 0.84in
Visibility
How far you can see at Dodge Center, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dodge Center, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Dodge Center, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank6of 1,965
Byron US-14 Mile Post 200MN029
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/1,283 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW7957DW7957
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/1,316 ft/48 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
South Fork Zumbro River At Rochester05372995
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.5 mi away/952 ft/316 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dodge Center 1.8 ESEMN-DD-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/1,291 ft/23 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OwatonnaOWAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/19.1 mi away/1,138 ft/130 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Dodge Center, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.6 mi from Dodge Center, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 9 mi.
The air
42.8 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Dodge Center, 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 Owatonna (OWAM5), 19.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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