Milaca US-169 Mile Post 200MN076
Beside a road/13.9 mi away/1,195 ft/126 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hillman 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. Hillman is 43° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 3 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 67°, 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 6:28 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 56 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Hillman, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 34 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
0.22 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 8 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 Hillman, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hillman, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Milaca US-169 Mile Post 200MN076
Beside a road/13.9 mi away/1,195 ft/126 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Little Falls - Dnr Fire WxLXLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.3 mi away/1,142 ft/179 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Little FallsLXL
At an airfield/22.4 mi away/1,152 ft/169 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW3631GW3631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.6 mi away/1,098 ft/223 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hillman 8.3 NMN-MR-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,288 ft/33 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a fire lookout or ranger station/11.4 mi away/1,250 ft/71 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.4 mi from Hillman, 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
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.