46.4690, -93.5270

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1. TodaySep 2664°56°Rain Showers100%0.29 inwind 13 mph · gusts 26 mph
2. SunSep 2770°48°Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Sunny45%0.04 inwind 9 mph · gusts 18 mph
3. MonSep 2870°57°Partly Sunny3%wind 7 mph · gusts 17 mph
4. TueSep 2966°52°Showers And Thunderstorms88%0.34 inwind 10 mph · gusts 21 mph
5. WedSep 3070°50°Partly Sunny34%wind 6 mph · gusts 15 mph
6. ThuOct 166°44°Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny15%wind 12 mph · gusts 23 mph
7. FriOct 263°43°Mostly Sunny8%wind 8 mph · gusts 18 mph
8. SatOct 361°40°15%wind 9 mph · gusts 18 mph
9. SunOct 457°36°National Blend13%wind 9 mph · gusts 20 mph
10. MonOct 557°40°National Blend5%wind 8 mph · gusts 17 mph
11. TueOct 661°42°National Blend6%0.02 inwind 10 mph · gusts 21 mph
12. WedOct 7~69°49°Model mean
13. ThuOct 8~68°48°Model mean
14. FriOct 9~70°52°Model mean
15. SatOct 10~71°56°Model mean
16. SunOct 11~69°60°Model mean

• Feels like59°
• WindSSE 13 mphgusts 25 mph
• Radar over this pointno reading
• Humidity82%
• Dew point54°
• Pressure—
• UV index—
• Air quality—
• Visibility4 mi
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise6:49 PMMoonset 7:03 AM
• Moon phaseFull moon100% lit

NOAA’s weighted blend of every model it runs, to eleven days, with the chances the grid above does not carry. Where the local office’s grid reaches, its figure sits beneath the blend’s; where it does not, the blend stands alone.

1. TodaySep 26—51°NWS grid 64° / 56°rain 99%thunder 10%wind 10 mph · gusts 23 mph
2. SunSep 2770°48°NWS grid 70° / 48°rain 25%0.02 inwind 6 mph · gusts 16 mph
3. MonSep 2870°57°NWS grid 70° / 57°rain 40%thunder 14%wind 7 mph · gusts 16 mph
4. TueSep 2966°52°NWS grid 66° / 52°rain 89%thunder 13%0.35 inwind 10 mph · gusts 21 mph
5. WedSep 3070°50°NWS grid 70° / 50°rain 15%0.01 inwind 6 mph · gusts 15 mph
6. ThuOct 166°44°NWS grid 66° / 44°rain 13%wind 12 mph · gusts 22 mph
7. FriOct 263°43°NWS grid 63° / 43°rain 8%wind 8 mph · gusts 18 mph
8. SatOct 361°40°NWS grid 61° / 40°rain 15%wind 9 mph · gusts 18 mph
9. SunOct 457°36°Beyond the NWS gridrain 13%wind 9 mph · gusts 20 mph
10. MonOct 557°40°Beyond the NWS gridrain 5%wind 8 mph · gusts 17 mph
11. TueOct 661°42°Beyond the NWS gridrain 6%0.02 inwind 10 mph · gusts 21 mph

Each line is one model’s own forecast at its own grid cell: three kilometers for HRRR, a quarter of a degree for the global models, which can sit a few hundred meters above or below the town. Where they agree the forecast is settled; where they part is where it is not.

NWS gridBlendHRRRGFSGEFS ± spreadECMWFECMWF AI

A ~ marks a high or low read from six-hourly steps, which miss the true extreme by a degree or two.

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

10 daysTemperature plume

No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one. Where the models stop, the calendar takes over: the 1991 to 2020 normal for each date, the record high and low ever set on it, and where the Climate Prediction Center leans warm, cool, wet or dry over the coming weeks, the month and the season. A site that shows a high for a date three months out is showing you this normal with a wobble.

The forecast reaches Sun Oct 11, from the NWS grid, then the National Blend, then the mean of the global models. Beyond it the lines are the calendar.

Forecast high and lowNormal high and lowRecord high and lowCPC leans warmer than normalCPC near normal or equal chances

None of these is a measurement. Each is a rating of the forecast ahead, and of what is happening at the point right now, against what the activity or the ailment is known to mind, and each names the figure that decided it. An ailment or a pest is rated as a risk, low to extreme; an activity, a chore or a journey as a condition, poor to ideal.

Each rating says which span it is for: the rest of today’s daylight, tonight, or the next 24 hours.

Tonight has no dark, clear hour without a bright moon in this forecast. Rated poor.

Dark is the sun 18 degrees below the horizon; where it never gets that low, 12 degrees, marked nautical. Clear is sky cover of 20% or less. A bright moon is one above the horizon with a quarter or more of its disc lit. Transparency in the table is estimated from surface humidity (70% and 85% mark fair and poor) and visibility, since the forecast carries no haze or high cloud moisture. Seeing and transparency by hour, where shown, are Environment and Climate Change Canada’s astronomy forecast (regional model; seeing from cloud, wind shear, turbulence near the ground and the surface temperature trend; transparency from the moisture through the whole air column), under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Dew is the air within 2 °C of its dew point. Excellent is four or more clear moonless hours with good transparency; good is three; fair is one, or two clear hours.

Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it; blue hour is the sun between 4 and 6 degrees below. These are the definitions timeanddate.com and PhotoPills use. Directions are degrees clockwise from true north, where the sun’s upper edge and the moon’s center cross a flat horizon; hills and buildings change both. None means the sun does not reach that height on the day; all day means it stays inside the band.

This hour: no-fly (gusts near or over your limit, chance of rain, wind at 400 ft near or over your limit). Next good stretch: Sun 12 PM to 7 PM, 7 hours.

Today: civil twilight for Part 107 6:36 AM to sunrise 7:06 AM, and sunset 7:04 PM to 7:34 PM. Anti-collision lighting is required in those minutes and at night.

Good Caution No-fly

Flight restrictions nearby

Reading the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.

Flight restrictions on the map. TFRs are not the whole picture: controlled airspace around airports needs LAANC authorization. Check the FAA’s B4UFLY.

Wind at 400 ft is estimated from the 10 m forecast by the power law, with exponents for each Pasquill stability class (Irwin 1979, rural, as in EPA dispersion models; the class from wind, sun height and cloud, after Turner 1970); gusts keep the ground gust’s margin. Caution from three quarters of your limit; the default 24 mph is the wind resistance printed for common sub-250 g drones. 14 CFR 107.51: “The minimum flight visibility, as observed from the location of the control station must be no less than 3 statute miles” and at least “500 feet below the cloud”. 14 CFR 107.29: “No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system during periods of civil twilight unless the small unmanned aircraft has lighted anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles”; civil twilight is the 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset, in Alaska the Air Almanac’s. Kp: SWPC’s scales say satellite navigation problems may occur at G3 (Kp 7) and navigation is “degraded for hours” at G4 (Kp 8); Kp 5 is the typical app warning. Typical limits, not rules: rain chance 30% caution and 60% no-fly, thunder 10% and 20%, below 0 °C caution and −10 °C no-fly, over 40 °C caution. Your drone’s manual and the airspace come first.

Hours fit for spraying, and the days dry enough for fieldwork and hay, read from this forecast’s wind, gusts, humidity, temperature and rain.

Spraying windows

• Mon 12 PM to 8 PM 8 hours, every hour within the rules
• Wed 12 PM to 8 PM 8 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 9 AM to 11 AM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 6 PM to 10 PM 4 hours, every hour within the rules

Good Marginal No

Field days

Spraying: sustained wind 3 to 10 mph, the range US extension services and most labels give; gusts no more than 15 mph (this page’s limit); delta T (air minus wet-bulb temperature) 2 to 8 °C preferred and 8 to 10 °C marginal, from GRDC guidance, with the wet bulb by Stull’s formula; no hour at a 30% chance of rain or 0.25 mm forecast during the rain-free time. Follow the product label, which overrides all of this. Field days: dry is no daytime hour at a 30% chance and under 1 mm all day, wet is 6 mm (0.25 in) or more; soil moisture is not in the forecast, so ground still wet from earlier rain is not accounted for. Hay drying marks a dry day with humidity down to 50% and a breeze of 5 mph or more.

The best-rated day this week is Saturday, rated best.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index

Major periods are two hours centered on the moon’s passage overhead and underfoot; minor periods are one hour centered on moonrise and moonset: the conventional durations of John Alden Knight’s solunar tables (1936). The rating is this site’s: one point to start, two more within a day and a half of a new or full moon (one more within three and a half days), and one more when a period falls within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The theory has mixed support in fisheries research; the times are exact astronomy.

1. This Afternoon64° · 100% · SE 10–15 mph

   Rain showers. Cloudy. High near 64, with temperatures falling to around 58 in the afternoon. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

2. Tonight51° · 90% · S 5–10 mph

   Rain showers. Cloudy, with a low around 51. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

3. Sunday70° · 22% · SW 0–5 mph

   A slight chance of rain showers before noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

4. Sunday Night48° · 0 mph

   Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. East wind around 0 mph.

5. Monday70° · 2% · SE 0–5 mph

   Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Southeast wind 0 to 5 mph.

6. Monday Night57° · 38% · S 5–10 mph

   A chance of rain showers between 1am and 4am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

7. Tuesday66° · 88% · S 5–10 mph

   Showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 66. South wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

8. Tuesday Night52° · 70% · SW 0–5 mph

   Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph.

9. Wednesday70° · 7% · SW 0–5 mph

   Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph.

10. Wednesday Night50° · 15% · SW 0–5 mph

    A slight chance of rain showers after 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph.

11. Thursday66° · 15% · NW 5–10 mph

    A slight chance of rain showers before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

12. Thursday Night44° · 7% · NW 5 mph

    Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. Northwest wind around 5 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

13. Friday63° · 8% · N 5–10 mph

    Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. North wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

14. Friday Night43° · 8% · E 0–5 mph

    Partly cloudy, with a low around 43. East wind 0 to 5 mph.

Written by the forecaster on duty for their own colleagues and for anyone who wants to know why the forecast says what it says. It is not edited for the public, so it uses the office’s shorthand; it is also the most honest thing any weather service publishes.

FLUS43 KDLH 261630
HWODLH

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Duluth MN
1130 AM CDT Sat Sep 26 2026

MNZ010>012-018>021-025-026-033>038-WIZ001>004-006>009-271630-
Koochiching-North St. Louis-Northern Cook/Northern Lake-
North Itasca-Central St. Louis-Southern Lake/North Shore-
Southern Cook/North Shore-North Cass-South Itasca-South Cass-
Crow Wing-Northern Aitkin-South Aitkin-Carlton/South St. Louis-
Pine-Douglas-Bayfield-Ashland-Iron-Burnett-Washburn-Sawyer-Price-
1130 AM CDT Sat Sep 26 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northeast 
Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and Tonight

Northeast winds over western Lake Superior this afternoon will 
create a risk of rip currents and dangerous swimming conditions. A
Beach Hazards Statement is in effect.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Gusty northeast winds over western Lake Superior are likely again
Monday afternoon, which may create hazardous swimming conditions.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Skywarn spotter activation is not anticipated this afternoon or 
tonight. Rainfall amounts from spotters and the public are 
encouraged.

$$

LSZ121-140>148-150-271630-
Bayfield to Oak Point WI-Grand Portage to Grand Marais MN-
Grand Marais to Taconite Harbor MN-
Taconite Harbor to Silver Bay Harbor MN-
Silver Bay Harbor to Two Harbors MN-Two Harbors to Duluth MN-
Duluth MN to Port Wing WI-Port Wing to Sand Island WI-
Sand Island to Bayfield WI-Oak Point to Saxon Harbor WI-
Outer Apostle Islands Beyond 5 NM from Mainland-
1130 AM CDT Sat Sep 26 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of Lake Superior
and the Nearshore waters of western Lake Superior.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and Tonight

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday

Gusty southerly winds Tuesday may pose a risk to smaller vessels 
over the south shore waters and near Grand Portage. Small Craft 
Advisories may be needed.

A cool front will bring gusty northwest winds to western Lake 
Superior Thursday afternoon and evening. Conditions may become 
hazardous for small craft. Hazardous conditions could redevelop 
during the day and evening hours Friday and next Saturday as well.

$$

Huyck

More information may be obtained at the following web address: 
http://www.weather.gov/duluth

The national centers each publish a judgment the local grid does not carry. Read here at this exact coordinate.

The last spring freeze (32°F) usually comes around May 16 and the first fall freeze around September 28: a growing season of about 133 days.

One fall in ten brings a freeze by September 12; one spring in ten still has one after June 1.

Climate of 46.47, -93.53: normals, records and every month

The forecast office edits about sixty fields for every cell of its grid. The common ones are above; these are the rest, as the daily extreme, for anyone who needs the mixing height, the fire danger or the swell.

Each forecast day against the same calendar date at the nearest long-record station: the 1991 to 2020 normal, and the record high and low with the year they were set.