U.S.169 - Farm Island - MP 245.4 MN US MNDOTMN129
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/1,266 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. Garrison is 41° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 4 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 Wednesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:03 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 4:00 AM in Garrison, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Central Minnesota (MN), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Garrison, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Garrison, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
U.S.169 - Farm Island - MP 245.4 MN US MNDOTMN129
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/1,266 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Brainerd RAWSBIRM5
A remote fire weather station/16.0 mi away/1,204 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BrainerdBRD
At an airfield/16.3 mi away/1,220 ft/34 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4072GW4072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.4 mi away/1,216 ft/38 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Garrison 1.7 NWMN-CW-144
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/1,276 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a fire lookout or ranger station/17.7 mi away/1,250 ft/4 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.3 mi from Garrison, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,600 ft, broken at 2,100 ft, overcast at 2,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 36 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 44 mph.
The full report of Brainerd, 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.