Lake Bronson DamLBRM5
At a dam/4.3 mi away/948 ft/52 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Halma until 6 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 47° today.
Now. Halma is 38° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 45° by 3 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 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 48 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Halma, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Red River Valley North (MN), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 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 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Halma, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lake Bronson DamLBRM5
At a dam/4.3 mi away/948 ft/52 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
T.H.11 - Karlstad - MP 37.7MN169
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/1,063 ft/63 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
HallockHCO
At an airfield/17.1 mi away/820 ft/180 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2867FW2867
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.3 mi away/800 ft/200 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Karlstad 0.2 SSWMN-KT-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/1,052 ft/52 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LancasterLNCM5
At a cooperative observer's station/16.6 mi away/912 ft/88 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.1 mi from Halma, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,400 ft, broken at 4,400 ft, overcast at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 4,400 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 2,400 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Hallock, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lancaster (LNCM5), 16.6 miles from here, read 12 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.