SanbornMN176
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/1,086 ft/52 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lamberton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 51° today.
Now. Lamberton is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 Lamberton, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.63 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 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lamberton, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lamberton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SanbornMN176
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/1,086 ft/52 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
TracyTKC
At an airfield/17.0 mi away/1,339 ft/201 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.4 mi away/1,430 ft/292 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW2295FW2295
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.0 mi away/1,458 ft/320 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lamberton 0.1 SWMN-RW-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,141 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lamberton SW Exp StaLAMM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/1,135 ft/3 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.0 mi from Lamberton, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:00 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,000 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,700 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Tracy, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lamberton SW Exp Sta (LAMM5), 2.6 miles from here, read 15 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.