Beside a road/6.0 mi away/1,258 ft/22 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 56° after 48° today.
Now. Fifty Lakes is 44° and overcast 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 11 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Fifty Lakes, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Central Minnesota (MN), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.22 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 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fifty Lakes, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Fifty Lakes, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/6.0 mi away/1,258 ft/22 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.5 mi away/1,296 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River At Aitkin05227500
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.6 mi away/1,183 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4072GW4072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.3 mi away/1,216 ft/64 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Emily 2.2 SWMN-CW-108
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/1,308 ft/28 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pine River DamCRLM5
At a dam/5.6 mi away/1,250 ft/30 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.5 mi from Fifty Lakes, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 900 ft, overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 900 ft; visibility 9 mi.
46.0 F with a dew point of 46.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 900 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Pine River Regio, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Pine River Dam (CRLM5), 5.6 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.