Beside a road/5.8 mi away/1,348 ft/221 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Mabel until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mabel is 43° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 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.
As of 4:00 AM in Mabel, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.96 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mabel, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mabel, 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
Beside a road/5.8 mi away/1,348 ft/221 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Root River Near Houston05385000
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.8 mi away/667 ft/460 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/23.2 mi away/1,276 ft/149 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.7 mi away/742 ft/385 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MabelMABM5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.4 mi away/1,112 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Spring Grove 0.2 SSEMN-HS-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/1,311 ft/184 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.2 mi from Mabel, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 ft; visibility 9 mi.
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 1,300 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 29 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
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mabel (MABM5), 0.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:15. 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.