In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/1,621 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Kenneth until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. Kenneth is 43° and light rain at 3 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 21 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 Kenneth, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.46 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kenneth, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kenneth, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/1,621 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
I-90 - Magnolia - MP 21.6MN147
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/1,499 ft/80 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LuverneLYV
At an airfield/11.6 mi away/1,430 ft/149 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pipestone RAWSRPPM5
A remote fire weather station/22.7 mi away/1,722 ft/143 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hardwick 3.4 ENEMN-RK-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/1,534 ft/45 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LuverneLUVM5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/1,480 ft/99 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.6 mi from Kenneth, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,100 ft, overcast at 2,900 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 north northwest (330 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Luverne, 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.