Hinckley I-35 Mile Post 181MN077
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/1,033 ft/3 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 3 AM (59%).
Now. Hinckley is 46° and rain at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:01 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, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Hinckley, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 25 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
0.36 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 7 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest Hinckley, 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 now5 instruments
Hinckley I-35 Mile Post 181MN077
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/1,033 ft/3 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Hinckley04W
At an airfield/2.3 mi away/1,020 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sandstone 6 W54932
At a climate reference station/7.1 mi away/1,130 ft/100 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Sandstone 6WSNDM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/1,129 ft/99 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8346FW8346
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,107 ft/77 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hinckley 0.5 WMN-PN-31
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,032 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SandstoneSNDM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/1,129 ft/99 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.3 mi from Hinckley, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 46.4 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
The full report of Hinckley, 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.