Root River Near Houston05385000
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.5 mi away/667 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Houston until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 7 AM (60%).
Now. Houston is 50° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 46°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 3 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (70%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Houston, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 13, 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 Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Houston, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Houston, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Root River Near Houston05385000
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.5 mi away/667 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Caledonia MN-44 Mile Post 60MN040
Beside a road/7.2 mi away/925 ft/242 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/742 ft/59 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Winona MuniONA
At an airfield/22.9 mi away/656 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Houston 2.3 NNWMN-HS-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/759 ft/76 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HokahHOKM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/889 ft/206 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.9 mi from Houston, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,300 ft, scattered at 1,900 ft, overcast at 3,400 ft; the ceiling is 3,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 42.8 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 1,300 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 13 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 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 Hokah (HOKM5), 7.4 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.