In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/965 ft/44 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Greenfield until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Greenfield is 44° and light rain at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Greenfield, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Northern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 21 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.56 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Greenfield, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Greenfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/965 ft/44 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
U.S.12 - Delano - MP 140.4MN161
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/981 ft/28 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BuffaloCFE
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/968 ft/41 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
WLN05 033N27W22Bcd 01 Alus-33 0000685849452012093412701
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.6 mi away/935 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/25.8 mi away/975 ft/34 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Greenfield 1.8 SSEMN-HN-394
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/1,019 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DelanoDELM5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/928 ft/81 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.9 mi from Greenfield, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,800 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Buffalo, 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.