U.S.75 - Trosky - MP 30.3MN154
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/1,759 ft/177 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Jasper until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 51° today.
Now. Jasper is 43° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 1 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Jasper, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 26 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jasper, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Jasper, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
U.S.75 - Trosky - MP 30.3MN154
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/1,759 ft/177 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PipestonePQN
At an airfield/10.2 mi away/1,736 ft/154 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pipestone RAWSRPPM5
A remote fire weather station/12.9 mi away/1,722 ft/140 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.3 mi away/1,621 ft/39 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pipestone 0.6 WNWMN-PS-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/1,720 ft/138 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PipestonePIPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/1,647 ft/65 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.2 mi from Jasper, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Pipestone, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Pipestone (PIPM5), 11.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:26. 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.