I-90 Mile Post 35MN007
Beside a road/1.9 mi away/1,691 ft/30 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rushmore, Minnesota
City in Nobles County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa and southwest Minnesota. * 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.
42°
50°/38°
Light rain·
Feels like 34°·Moderate breeze 18 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rushmore 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 58° after 50° today.
Now. Rushmore is 42° and light rain at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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
19Air quality
93%Humidity
87%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
42feels34
30%
18mph
Today
Oct 16
5038
35%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5829
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7350
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7353
15%
42°
50°38°
58°29°
65°39°
65°41°
69°43°
73°50°
73°53°
As of 3:00 AM in Rushmore, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Rushmore
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 45 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rushmore
0.60 in in the last 24 hours, 0.63 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.60in
- Last 3 days
- 0.63in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 95%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rushmore, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rushmore, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rushmore, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,395of 1,965
WorthingtonOTG
At an airfield/11.2 mi away/1,575 ft/86 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3286EW3286
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.9 mi away/1,547 ft/114 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.6 mi away/1,430 ft/231 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Adrian 0.4 WNWMN-NB-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/1,567 ft/94 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WorthingtonWRNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/1,558 ft/103 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Worthington, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.2 mi from Rushmore, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud reported; visibility 6 mi.
The air
44.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 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 wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Worthington, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Worthington (WRNM5), 11.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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