BrainerdBRD
At an airfield/4.4 mi away/1,220 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 56° after 48° today.
Now. Merrifield is 44° and light rain at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 66°, 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 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:04 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 54 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Merrifield, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Central Minnesota (MN), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, 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 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Merrifield, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Merrifield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
BrainerdBRD
At an airfield/4.4 mi away/1,220 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Brainerd RAWSBIRM5
A remote fire weather station/4.7 mi away/1,204 ft/16 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW4072GW4072
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/1,216 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
T.H.371 - Nisswa - MP 46.2MN170
Beside a road/7.3 mi away/1,201 ft/19 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Brainerd 6.9 NMN-CW-99
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,272 ft/52 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BrainerdBRAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/1,178 ft/42 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.4 mi from Merrifield, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,000 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 6 mi.
46.0 F with a dew point of 43.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Brainerd, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Brainerd (BRAM5), 8.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.