LitchfieldLJF
At an airfield/2.3 mi away/1,142 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Litchfield until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Litchfield is 45° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Litchfield, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 35 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.23 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Litchfield, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Litchfield, 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 now5 instruments
LitchfieldLJF
At an airfield/2.3 mi away/1,142 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
LitchfieldLFSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.9 mi away/1,145 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
U.S.12 - Atwater - MP 85.4MN159
Beside a road/14.0 mi away/1,257 ft/128 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW2011GW2011
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.5 mi away/1,123 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/34.5 mi away/975 ft/154 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Litchfield 0.6 NNEMN-MK-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,132 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LitchfieldLCHM5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/1,125 ft/4 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.3 mi from Litchfield, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,200 ft, overcast at 2,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,200 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Litchfield, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Litchfield (LCHM5), 0.5 miles from here, read 14 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.