U.S.14 - Florence - MP 21.2MN160
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/1,742 ft/14 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Florence until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Florence is 43° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Florence, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 38 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.38 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Florence, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Florence, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
U.S.14 - Florence - MP 21.2MN160
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/1,742 ft/14 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
N. Branch Pipestone Creek 5 N PipestonePSNM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.7 mi away/1,677 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/18.6 mi away/1,178 ft/550 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.9 mi away/1,621 ft/107 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tyler 0.2 SSWMN-LN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/1,751 ft/23 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake WilsonLKWM5
At a cooperative observer's station/17.0 mi away/1,647 ft/81 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.6 mi from Florence, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,700 ft, overcast at 3,400 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
47.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,700 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 21 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Marshall/Ryan, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.