Citizen station KD5JEOKD5JEO
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/935 ft/123 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lakeville, Minnesota
City in Dakota County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
51°/40°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lakeville until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lakeville is 44° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
84%Humidity
55%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
44feels39
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5140
85%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6441
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6443
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6843
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7249
18%
Thu
Oct 22
7153
23%
44°
51°40°
57°31°
64°41°
64°43°
68°43°
72°49°
71°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Lakeville
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 1 mile off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good2.5 mi
- Ozone11Good12 ppb15 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-22.1 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide4Good4.9 ppb19 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb20 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm2.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lakeville
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.83in
- Last 3 days
- 1.00in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 83%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lakeville, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lakeville, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lakeville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,702of 1,965
At an airfield/4.6 mi away/961 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Burnsville I-35W Mile Post 4MN086
Beside a road/7.7 mi away/792 ft/266 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/13.4 mi away/833 ft/225 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lakeville 1.4 NNEMN-DK-214
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,043 ft/15 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Farmington CwsuZMPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/909 ft/149 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Mnpls/Airlake, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.6 mi from Lakeville, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
42.8 F with a dew point of 39.2 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 wind
From the west (280 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
The full report of Mnpls/Airlake, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Minnesota
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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