Silver Lake TH 7 Mile Post 1MN002
Beside a road/3.8 mi away/1,023 ft/47 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Silver Lake, Minnesota
City in McLeod County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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°
51°/39°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Silver Lake 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 59° after 51° today.
Now. Silver Lake is 44° 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 10 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 10:12 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
86%Humidity
91%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
44feels39
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5139
70%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5931
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6542
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6843
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
16%
Thu
Oct 22
7153
19%
44°
51°39°
59°31°
65°42°
65°42°
68°43°
72°50°
71°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Silver Lake, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Silver Lake
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 45 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Silver Lake
0.37 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.37in
- Last 3 days
- 0.37in
Visibility
How far you can see at Silver Lake, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Silver Lake, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Silver Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank1,395of 1,965
HutchinsonHCD
At an airfield/9.6 mi away/1,060 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW4584FW4584
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/1,020 ft/50 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
LitchfieldLFSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.0 mi away/1,145 ft/75 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/37.6 mi away/975 ft/95 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Silver Lake 1.7 NMN-MC-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,059 ft/11 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Brownton WWTPBWNM5
At a water treatment plant/13.8 mi away/1,024 ft/46 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Silver Lake TH 7 Mile Post 1, drawn
The nearest instrument reporting now, 3.8 mi from Silver Lake, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
45.5 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up.
The wind
From the west (280 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 15 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Brownton WWTP (BWNM5), 13.8 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
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Near Silver Lake
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Winstedcity, 9 mi
- Hutchinsoncity, 9 mi
- Glencoecity, 9 mi
- New Germanycity, 11 mi
- Cokatocity, 12 mi
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- Dasselcity, 13 mi
- Browntoncity, 14 mi
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