Lester Prairie MN-7 Mile Post 161MN022
Beside a road/1.7 mi away/938 ft/51 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for New Germany until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. New Germany is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in New Germany, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over New Germany, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest New Germany, 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 now5 instruments
Lester Prairie MN-7 Mile Post 161MN022
Beside a road/1.7 mi away/938 ft/51 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW4584FW4584
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,020 ft/31 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
GlencoeGYL
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/991 ft/2 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Minnesota River Near Jordan05330000
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.7 mi away/690 ft/299 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/37.0 mi away/975 ft/14 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Norwood Young America 5.5 NNWMN-CV-47
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/965 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DelanoDLNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/912 ft/77 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.5 mi from New Germany, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,600 ft, overcast at 7,500 ft; the ceiling is 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
45.0 F with a dew point of 42.0 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 2,600 ft.
From the west (280 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Glencoe, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Delano (DLNM5), 13.8 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.