Silver BaySLVM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.2 mi away/614 ft/757 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Finland is 40° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 11 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 43° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 59°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible Thursday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:47 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 52 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Finland, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Minnesota Arrowhead (MN), 45 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.44 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Finland, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Finland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Silver BaySLVM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.2 mi away/614 ft/757 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/19.1 mi away/689 ft/682 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Two HarborsTWM
At an airfield/34.4 mi away/1,076 ft/295 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Finland 0.1 SMN-LK-52
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/1,306 ft/65 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wolf Ridge Environ Learning CenterWLFM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/1,640 ft/269 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 34.4 mi from Finland, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,400 ft, scattered at 2,000 ft, broken at 2,500 ft, overcast at 4,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,500 ft; visibility 8 mi.
46.8 F with a dew point of 43.5 F, 88 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 1,400 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Two Harbors, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Wolf Ridge Environ Learning Center (WLFM5), 2.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.