Beside a road/4.3 mi away/1,428 ft/9 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 1 AM, the chance peaking at 67% around 2 AM.
Now. Leonidas is 45° and light rain at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 36° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 12 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. Air quality is moderate (index 61): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:52 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 52 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Leonidas, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 61, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, North Central Minnesota (MN), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 57, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.22 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Leonidas, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Leonidas, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/4.3 mi away/1,428 ft/9 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Eveleth MuniEVM
At an airfield/4.3 mi away/1,381 ft/56 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2884GW2884
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/1,348 ft/89 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Hibbing RAWSHIBM5
A remote fire weather station/13.2 mi away/1,339 ft/98 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Eveleth 0.3 EMN-SL-272
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,638 ft/201 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Eveleth Waste Water PlantELVM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.0 mi away/1,444 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.3 mi from Leonidas, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 800 ft, broken at 1,900 ft, overcast at 2,800 ft; the ceiling is 800 ft; visibility 5 mi.
46.4 F with a dew point of 45.3 F, 96 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 800 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Eveleth Muni, 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.