MN-71 Mile Post 43MN071
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/1,427 ft/54 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Jeffers until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Jeffers is 45° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (56%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Jeffers, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 51 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.52 in in the last 24 hours, 0.54 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jeffers, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Jeffers, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MN-71 Mile Post 43MN071
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/1,427 ft/54 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/1,411 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.7 mi away/1,430 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW2295FW2295
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.1 mi away/1,458 ft/23 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Storden 0.2 SMN-CD-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/1,403 ft/78 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WindomWDOM5
At a cooperative observer's station/13.5 mi away/1,365 ft/116 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from Jeffers, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 41.0 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 2,900 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Windom Muni Airp, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Windom (WDOM5), 13.5 miles from here, read 7 Oct, 08:00. 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.