At an airfield/10.6 mi away/1,276 ft/412 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lanesboro, Minnesota
City in Fillmore County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
45°
51°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lanesboro until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 8 AM (54%).
Now. Lanesboro is 45° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
98%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
45feels39
15%
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5142
78%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6342
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6845
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7049
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7255
15%
45°
51°42°
57°32°
63°42°
65°44°
68°45°
70°49°
72°55°
As of 5:00 AM in Lanesboro, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Lanesboro
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 23 miles off.
18Good
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 15, good.
GoodModerate
- 15YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lanesboro
0.91 in in the last 24 hours, 0.96 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.91in
- Last 3 days
- 0.96in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 95%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lanesboro, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 3 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lanesboro, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lanesboro, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank502of 1,965
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/1,348 ft/484 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Root River Near Houston05385000
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.5 mi away/667 ft/197 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.8 mi away/742 ft/122 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lanesboro 0.2 SSWMN-FM-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/888 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
South Branch Root River AT PrestonPTNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/961 ft/97 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Preston (AWOS), drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.6 mi from Lanesboro, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Broken at 800 ft, overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 800 ft; visibility 4 mi.
The air
44.6 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 800 ft.
The wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 16 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Preston (AWOS), 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
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