Citizen station FW7006FW7006
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/950 ft/18 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Minster 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 62° after 53° today.
Now. Minster is 44° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 6 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 Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:50 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Minster, Ohio.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Muncie (IN), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
0.25 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Minster, OhioReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Minster, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
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Citizen station FW7006FW7006
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/950 ft/18 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Loramie Creek near Newport03261950
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/926 ft/42 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WapakonetaAXV
At an airfield/8.0 mi away/900 ft/68 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
77-IR75 MM 105OH069
Beside a road/13.1 mi away/1,000 ft/32 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Minster 0.4 SWOH-AZ-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/955 ft/13 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Saint MarysSTMO1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.0 mi away/873 ft/95 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.0 mi from Minster, Ohio. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 2:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,200 ft, overcast at 3,100 ft; the ceiling is 3,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 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 2,200 ft.
From the north (350 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
The full report of Wapakoneta, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.