Lastrup MN-25 Mile Post 140MN035
Beside a road/3.8 mi away/1,302 ft/38 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Harding until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Harding is 43° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Harding, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Central Minnesota (MN), 29 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.19 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 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 1 AM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Harding, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Lastrup MN-25 Mile Post 140MN035
Beside a road/3.8 mi away/1,302 ft/38 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.9 mi away/1,133 ft/131 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4072GW4072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.2 mi away/1,216 ft/48 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Little Falls - Dnr Fire WxLXLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.3 mi away/1,142 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pierz 12.3 NMN-MR-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/1,290 ft/26 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrainerdBRAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/17.4 mi away/1,178 ft/86 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.9 mi from Harding, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:20 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Brainerd (BRAM5), 17.4 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.