Beside a road/4.3 mi away/1,270 ft/9 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Wahkon, Minnesota
City in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From midnight tonight 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.
40°
50°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Light air 1 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wahkon until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wahkon is 40° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northwest at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:03 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
75%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
40feels40
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5035
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5629
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6038
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6136
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6337
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6543
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
6646
overcast
40°
50°35°
56°29°
60°38°
61°36°
63°37°
65°43°
66°46°
As of 8:00 PM in Wahkon, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Wahkon
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 35 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Ozone28Good27 ppb12.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
GoodModerate
- 22YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- 30SatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wahkon
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 13%
Visibility
How far you can see at Wahkon, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Wahkon, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Wahkon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank1,422of 2,026
Snake River (MN) 3 AT Warman 3SE SNAKE RWMNM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.4 mi away/1,016 ft/245 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8346FW8346
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.7 mi away/1,107 ft/154 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MoraJMR
At an airfield/20.1 mi away/1,014 ft/247 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sandstone 6 W54932
At a climate reference station/25.5 mi away/1,130 ft/131 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Isle 1.0 NWMN-ML-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,255 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a fire lookout or ranger station/7.8 mi away/1,250 ft/11 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Mora, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.1 mi from Wahkon, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
37.4 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 75 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Mora, 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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