Ottertail MN-78 Mile Post 34MN055
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/1,344 ft/91 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 49° today.
Now. Henning is 41° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 2 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 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 3:00 AM in Henning, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Henning, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Henning, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ottertail MN-78 Mile Post 34MN055
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/1,344 ft/91 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/1,331 ft/104 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Wadena MuniADC
At an airfield/14.3 mi away/1,371 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Miltona 3SW - Lake Carlos SPLCLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.4 mi away/1,402 ft/33 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Henning 0.4 WMN-OT-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,432 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OttertailOTTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/1,302 ft/133 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.3 mi from Henning, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, broken at 2,700 ft, overcast at 3,200 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 39.2 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 2,100 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Wadena Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Ottertail (OTTM5), 8.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 04:43. 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.