Clara City MN-7 Mile Post 89MN021
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/1,054 ft/24 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Maynard until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 51° today.
Now. Maynard is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Maynard, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 12 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 in in the last 24 hours, 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Maynard, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Maynard, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Clara City MN-7 Mile Post 89MN021
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/1,054 ft/24 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Granite Falls 5SE - Upper Sioux CommUPSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.3 mi away/1,003 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/1,047 ft/17 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW6462GW6462
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.7 mi away/1,100 ft/70 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Montevideo 8.1 EMN-CP-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/1,025 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Granite FallsGRTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/1,053 ft/23 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.5 mi from Maynard, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,300 ft, broken at 3,500 ft, overcast at 8,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 40.6 F, 75 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Granite Falls, 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.