U.S.14 - Springfield - MP 80.7MN151
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/1,027 ft/14 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Springfield, Minnesota
City in Brown County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, and southwest Minnesota and northwest 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.
43°
53°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 35°·Fresh breeze 20 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Springfield 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. Springfield is 43° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 1 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 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
88%Humidity
92%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
43feels35
30%
20mph
Today
Oct 16
5340
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
6132
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6742
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7453
10%
43°
53°40°
61°32°
67°42°
67°43°
70°44°
74°51°
74°53°
As of 4:00 AM in Springfield, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Springfield
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 44 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Springfield
0.48 in in the last 24 hours, 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.48in
- Last 3 days
- 0.58in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 83%
Visibility
How far you can see at Springfield, the next 40 hours
Visibility stays 9 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 Springfield, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Springfield, 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
Rank1,660of 1,965
Fairfax 5S - Fort RidgelyFRGM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.6 mi away/979 ft/62 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Redwood FallRWF
At an airfield/21.8 mi away/1,020 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW7572DW7572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.0 mi away/1,002 ft/39 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Springfield 0.2 ESEMN-BW-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,027 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lamberton SW Exp StaLAMM5
At a cooperative observer's station/16.7 mi away/1,135 ft/94 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Redwood Fall, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.8 mi from Springfield, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Scattered at 1,600 ft, overcast at 2,600 ft; the ceiling is 2,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
45.0 F with a dew point of 40.0 F, 83 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
The wind
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 36 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Redwood Fall, 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 Lamberton SW Exp Sta (LAMM5), 16.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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