Mississippi River 5 WNW Minnesota City Dam 5MSCM5
At a dam/3.7 mi away/650 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Minneiska, Minnesota
City in Wabasha County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM 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.
43°
51°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Light breeze 7 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Minneiska until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM (65%).
Now. Minneiska is 43° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
87%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
43feels39
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5141
66%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6341
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6543
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6844
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7048
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7254
17%
43°
51°41°
57°32°
63°41°
65°43°
68°44°
70°48°
72°54°
As of 3:00 AM in Minneiska, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Minneiska
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 10 miles off.
18Good
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minneiska
0.93 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.93in
- Last 3 days
- 0.93in
Visibility
How far you can see at Minneiska, the next 41 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Minneiska, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Minneiska, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,956of 1,965
Kellogg US-61 Mile Post 53MN069
Beside a road/8.6 mi away/742 ft/55 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Winona MuniONA
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/656 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW3090FW3090
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.8 mi away/719 ft/32 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Minneiska 0.3 NNWMN-WB-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/761 ft/74 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Minnesota CityMSCM5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/659 ft/28 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Winona Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.4 mi from Minneiska, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 2,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
44.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,100 ft.
The wind
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 16 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Winona Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mississippi River 5 WNW Minnesota City Dam 5 (MSCM5), 3.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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