At a river or reservoir gauge/8.2 mi away/924 ft/61 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Nicollet until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Nicollet is 46° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (62%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Nicollet, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.74 in in the last 24 hours, 0.78 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Nicollet, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Nicollet, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.2 mi away/924 ft/61 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mankato US-169 Mile Post 52MN073
Beside a road/11.3 mi away/797 ft/188 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW7572DW7572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.9 mi away/1,002 ft/17 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MankatoMKT
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/1,020 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Saint Peter 6.2 WSWMN-NC-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/972 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
St PeterSPEM5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.0 mi away/932 ft/53 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.8 mi from Nicollet, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,500 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 16 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Mankato, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at St Peter (SPEM5), 10.0 miles from here, read 12 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.