Cotton US-53 Mile Post 41MN066
Beside a road/15.0 mi away/1,328 ft/52 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 2 AM (61%).
Now. Meadowlands is 43° and light rain at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 45° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
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 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:55 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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Meadowlands, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Duluth Area (MN), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.14 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Meadowlands, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Meadowlands, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Cotton US-53 Mile Post 41MN066
Beside a road/15.0 mi away/1,328 ft/52 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3146EW3146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/1,326 ft/50 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Saginaw RAWSSNWM5
A remote fire weather station/20.2 mi away/1,316 ft/40 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HibbingHIB
At an airfield/22.4 mi away/1,352 ft/76 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Meadowlands 1.8 SSWMN-SL-297
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/1,278 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FloodwoodFLDM5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.0 mi away/1,253 ft/23 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.4 mi from Meadowlands, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,200 ft, broken at 3,100 ft, overcast at 4,300 ft; the ceiling is 3,100 ft; visibility 6 mi.
46.0 F with a dew point of 44.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,200 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Hibbing, 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.