Citizen station W0WYL-13W0WYL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/961 ft/28 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Montrose until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Montrose is 46° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Montrose, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Northern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.40 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Montrose, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Montrose, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station W0WYL-13W0WYL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/961 ft/28 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BuffaloCFE
At an airfield/7.1 mi away/968 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
U.S.12 - Delano - MP 140.4MN161
Beside a road/7.8 mi away/981 ft/8 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
WLN05 033N27W22Bcd 01 Alus-33 0000685849452012093412701
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.4 mi away/935 ft/54 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/24.1 mi away/975 ft/14 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Montrose 0.5 NWMN-WR-62
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/982 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DelanoDELM5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/928 ft/61 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.1 mi from Montrose, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,900 ft; the ceiling is 1,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 42.8 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 1,900 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Buffalo, 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.