Twin Lakes I-35 Mile Post 1MN001
Beside a road/6.7 mi away/1,218 ft/74 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Emmons until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Emmons is 44° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, 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 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Emmons, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 60 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
1.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Emmons, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Emmons, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Twin Lakes I-35 Mile Post 1MN001
Beside a road/6.7 mi away/1,218 ft/74 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GordonsvilleGDVM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.0 mi away/1,201 ft/91 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Albert LeaAEL
At an airfield/13.7 mi away/1,257 ft/35 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4806GW4806
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.4 mi away/1,219 ft/73 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Glenville 2.3 SWMN-FN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,250 ft/42 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Albert Lea 3 SEALBM5
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/1,201 ft/91 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.7 mi from Emmons, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 700 ft; the ceiling is 700 ft; visibility 1.75 mi.
45.3 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 97 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 700 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Albert Lea, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Albert Lea 3 SE (ALBM5), 11.7 miles from here, read 15 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.