Little Falls - Dnr Fire WxLXLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/1,142 ft/20 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Genola until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 58° after 50° today.
Now. Genola is 44° and rain at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 12 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 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Genola, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Genola, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Genola, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Little Falls - Dnr Fire WxLXLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.2 mi away/1,142 ft/20 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Little FallsLXL
At an airfield/11.3 mi away/1,152 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lastrup MN-25 Mile Post 140MN035
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/1,302 ft/140 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW3631GW3631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.5 mi away/1,098 ft/64 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/38.6 mi away/975 ft/187 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Pierz 0.1 WSWMN-MR-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,180 ft/18 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RiceRCEM5
At a cooperative observer's station/15.2 mi away/1,079 ft/83 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.3 mi from Genola, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, overcast at 2,600 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 37.4 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 2,100 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Little Falls, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Rice (RCEM5), 15.2 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.