T.H.9 - Murdock - MP 24.5MN136
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/1,129 ft/127 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sunburg, Minnesota
City in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Benton, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wright, Chippewa, Douglas, Lac Qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift, and Yellow Medicine Counties. * WHEN...From late tonight 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.
42°
51°/37°
Overcast·
Feels like 33°·Moderate breeze 19 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sunburg until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 51° today.
Now. Sunburg is 42° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, 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 10:14 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
85%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
42feels33
19mph
Today
Oct 16
5137
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
6132
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6542
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6440
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6742
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7148
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7151
10%
42°
51°37°
61°32°
65°42°
64°40°
67°42°
71°48°
71°51°
As of 7:00 AM in Sunburg, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Sunburg
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 44 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
GoodModerate
- 27YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sunburg
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Last 3 days
- 0.11in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 55%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sunburg, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sunburg, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sunburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1,395of 1,965
New London - Sibley State ParkSIBM5
In a park or preserve/9.9 mi away/1,248 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Benson MuniBBB
At an airfield/20.0 mi away/1,040 ft/216 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2011GW2011
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.2 mi away/1,123 ft/133 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Brooten 7.6 SSWMN-KD-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.7 mi away/1,292 ft/36 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BensonBENM5
At a cooperative observer's station/18.1 mi away/1,037 ft/219 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Benson Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.0 mi from Sunburg, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:00 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 3,300 ft; the ceiling is 3,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
41.0 F with a dew point of 37.4 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 3,300 ft.
The wind
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 32 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Benson 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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