Citizen station FW3090FW3090
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/719 ft/489 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Homer until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM (59%).
Now. Homer is 44° and light rain at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 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 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Homer, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.10 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 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Homer, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Homer, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW3090FW3090
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/719 ft/489 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ridgeway I-90 Mile Post 261MN012
Beside a road/6.6 mi away/1,319 ft/111 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River 3 NW Winona Dam 5AWIDM5
At a dam/7.8 mi away/653 ft/555 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Winona MuniONA
At an airfield/8.8 mi away/656 ft/552 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Winona 6.9 ESEMN-WN-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/849 ft/359 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Winona Dam 5AWIDM5
At a dam/7.8 mi away/643 ft/565 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.8 mi from Homer, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Winona Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River 3 NW Winona Dam 5A (WIDM5), 7.8 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.