Ottertail MN-78 Mile Post 34MN055
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/1,344 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Battle Lake Public Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Otter Tail County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Wadena, East Otter Tail, Grant, West Otter Tail, and Wilkin Counties. * 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.
46°
50°/36°
Clear·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Battle Lake Public Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 50° today.
Now. Battle Lake Public Beach is 46° and clear at 4 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 Wednesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 10 hours 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
31Air quality
38%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
46feels41
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5036
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
6034
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6344
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6240
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6443
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6749
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
6748
overcast
46°
50°36°
60°34°
63°44°
62°40°
64°43°
67°49°
67°48°
As of 4:00 PM in Battle Lake Public Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Battle Lake Public Beach
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 14 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)4Good-
- Ozone31Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- 30SatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Battle Lake Public Beach
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.07in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Battle Lake Public Beach, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Otter Tail County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 46.2974° N
- Longitude
- 95.7123° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Battle Lake Public Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/1,331 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Pelican Rapids 6E - Maplewood SPMPWM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/1,397 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fergus FallsFFM
At an airfield/21.2 mi away/1,184 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Battle Lake 1.2 WNWMN-OT-67
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/1,366 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OttertailOTTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.8 mi away/1,302 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ottertail (OTTM5), 10.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 05:35. measured daily
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Near Battle Lake Public Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Battle Lakecity, 1 mi
- Clitherallcity, 4 mi
- Underwoodcity, 8 mi
- Viningcity, 9 mi
- Ottertailcity, 11 mi
- Henningcity, 13 mi
- Daltoncity, 13 mi
- Richvillecity, 15 mi
- Ashbycity, 15 mi
- Urbankcity, 15 mi
- Fergus Fallscity, 17 mi
- Millervillecity, 18 mi