West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/1,430 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Westbrook until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 51° today.
Now. Westbrook is 42° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 27 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° 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. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Westbrook, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 50 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.70 in in the last 24 hours, 0.79 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Westbrook, MinnesotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Westbrook, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/1,430 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Dovray MN-30 Mile Post 49MN038
Beside a road/8.0 mi away/1,563 ft/139 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
TracyTKC
At an airfield/16.5 mi away/1,339 ft/85 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2295FW2295
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.2 mi away/1,458 ft/34 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Storden 0.2 SMN-CD-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/1,403 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lamberton SW Exp STNLMBM5
At a cooperative observer's station/14.7 mi away/1,142 ft/282 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.5 mi from Westbrook, Minnesota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.8 F with a dew point of 39.2 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 1,800 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 38 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
The full report of Tracy, 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.