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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Rushford, Minnesota
City in Fillmore 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.
45°
52°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rushford 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 8 AM (54%).
Now. Rushford is 45° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 6 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. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
91%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
45feels39
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5242
76%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5733
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6341
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6944
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7148
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7254
17%
45°
52°42°
57°33°
63°41°
66°43°
69°44°
71°48°
72°54°
As of 4:00 AM in Rushford, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Rushford
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 18 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 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rushford
1.00 in in the last 24 hours, 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 95%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rushford, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 3 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rushford, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rushford, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank10of 1,965
Ridgeway I-90 Mile Post 261MN012
Beside a road/12.4 mi away/1,319 ft/589 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.1 mi away/742 ft/12 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Winona MuniONA
At an airfield/18.4 mi away/656 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
RushfordRUDM5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/709 ft/21 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rushford 0.8 SMN-FM-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/728 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Winona Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.4 mi from Rushford, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 7 mi.
The air
44.6 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
The wind
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light 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
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Snow on the ground
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