T.H.9 - Murdock - MP 24.5MN136
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/1,129 ft/40 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Murdock, Minnesota
City in Swift County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From midnight tonight 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.
44°
52°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Light breeze 6 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Murdock until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 52° today.
Now. Murdock is 44° and clear at 7 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
58%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
7:00 PM
44feels40
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5238
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6032
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6443
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6341
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6743
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7049
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7050
overcast
44°
52°38°
60°32°
64°43°
63°41°
67°43°
70°49°
70°50°
As of 7:00 PM in Murdock, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Murdock
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 33 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- 30SatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Murdock
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.07in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Murdock, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Murdock, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Murdock, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,422of 2,026
Benson MuniBBB
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/1,040 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
New London - Sibley State ParkSIBM5
In a park or preserve/18.3 mi away/1,248 ft/159 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW6462GW6462
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.6 mi away/1,100 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Benson 6.7 EMN-SW-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/1,064 ft/25 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BensonBENM5
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/1,037 ft/52 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Benson Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.6 mi from Murdock, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
39.2 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
The wind
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Benson Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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