U.S.14 - Springfield - MP 80.7MN151
Beside a road/8.8 mi away/1,027 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sleepy Eye 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 61° after 53° today.
Now. Sleepy Eye is 44° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 0.67 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sleepy Eye, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sleepy Eye, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
U.S.14 - Springfield - MP 80.7MN151
Beside a road/8.8 mi away/1,027 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fairfax 5S - Fort RidgelyFRGM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.1 mi away/979 ft/36 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
New Ulm MuniULM
At an airfield/11.1 mi away/1,010 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW7572DW7572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.0 mi away/1,002 ft/13 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sleepy Eye 0.5 SSEMN-BW-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,014 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Saint JamesSTJM5
At a cooperative observer's station/21.8 mi away/1,050 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.1 mi from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,400 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of New Ulm Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.