Beside a road/11.0 mi away/1,165 ft/32 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Frost until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Frost is 44° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° 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 Wednesday, near 73°, 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 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 3:00 AM in Frost, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 47 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.10 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 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Frost, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Frost, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/1,165 ft/32 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/24.9 mi away/1,161 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
GordonsvilleGDVM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.2 mi away/1,201 ft/68 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Blue Earth 0.6 ESEMN-FT-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/1,093 ft/40 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Blue Earth DowntownBTHM5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/1,076 ft/57 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.9 mi from Frost, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,700 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 2,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,700 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Fairmont Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Blue Earth Downtown (BTHM5), 9.4 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.