Maple LakeMGG
At an airfield/1.1 mi away/1,027 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Maple Lake, Minnesota
City in Wright County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures expected. * WHERE...Benton, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wright, Chippewa, Douglas, Lac Qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift, and Yellow Medicine Counties. * WHEN...From midnight tonight 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.
50°
54°/40°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 14 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Maple Lake until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Maple Lake is 50° and clear at 1 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
3UV Low
25Air quality
42%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
50feels44
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5440
15mph
Sat
Oct 17
5834
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6343
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6342
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6643
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6950
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7052
10%
50°
54°40°
58°34°
63°43°
63°42°
66°43°
69°50°
70°52°
As of 1:00 PM in Maple Lake, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Maple Lake
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 PM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 23 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)5Good16.7 mi
- Ozone25Good28 ppb16.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Maple Lake
0.22 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.22in
- Last 3 days
- 0.32in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 69%
Visibility
How far you can see at Maple Lake, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Maple Lake, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Maple Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank430of 1,965
Citizen station EW1587EW1587
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/1,041 ft/4 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Clearwater I-94 Mile Post 180MN017
Beside a road/11.4 mi away/995 ft/42 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/13.4 mi away/975 ft/62 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
WLN05 033N27W22Bcd 01 Alus-33 0000685849452012093412701
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.1 mi away/935 ft/102 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Maple Lake 0.5 SSWMN-WR-129
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,062 ft/25 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DelanoDELM5
At a cooperative observer's station/16.4 mi away/928 ft/109 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Maple Lake, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 1.1 mi from Maple Lake, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
52.0 F with a dew point of 29.3 F, 41 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,100 ft up.
The wind
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Maple Lake, 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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