St. JamesJYG
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/1,066 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for La Salle until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. La Salle is 45° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 1:00 AM in La Salle, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.69 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over La Salle, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest La Salle, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
St. JamesJYG
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/1,066 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW2182DW2182
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/991 ft/42 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Madelia US-60 Mile Post 86MN045
Beside a road/10.0 mi away/995 ft/38 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.4 mi away/924 ft/109 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Saint James 7.8 NMN-WW-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/1,033 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Saint JamesSTJM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/1,050 ft/17 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.8 mi from La Salle, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,200 ft, broken at 2,900 ft, overcast at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 42.8 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 2,200 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of St. James, 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.