Eyota 2NEWIRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/1,197 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Utica until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM, the chance peaking at 54% around 8 AM.
Now. Utica is 46° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Utica, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Mississippi River Valley (MN), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 13, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.97 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Utica, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Utica, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Eyota 2NEWIRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.4 mi away/1,197 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jct CR 7 I-90 Mile Post 226MN011
Beside a road/12.5 mi away/1,309 ft/135 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Winona MuniONA
At an airfield/14.1 mi away/656 ft/518 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2899FW2899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.6 mi away/1,247 ft/73 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lewiston 0.2 NWMN-WN-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/1,221 ft/47 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Altura 5WALTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.3 mi away/912 ft/262 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.1 mi from Utica, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 3,000 ft, overcast at 3,800 ft; the ceiling is 3,000 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 3,000 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Winona Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Altura 5W (ALTM5), 7.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.