Beside a road/3.6 mi away/1,064 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Benton Beach Park, Minnesota
Beach in Benton County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
44°
54°/37°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Benton Beach Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Benton Beach Park is 44° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is possible tomorrow (48%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
74%Humidity
64%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
44feels39
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 15
5437
62%
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
5036
48%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5630
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6239
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6138
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6438
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6847
20%
44°
54°37°
50°36°
56°30°
62°39°
61°38°
64°38°
68°47°
As of 9:00 PM in Benton Beach Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Benton Beach Park
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, St. Cloud Area (MN), 14 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good13.9 mi
- Ozone18Good23 ppb13.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
- 28TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Benton Beach Park
0.17 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.17in
- Last 3 days
- 0.17in
Visibility
How far you can see at Benton Beach Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Benton County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 45.7469° N
- Longitude
- 94.1640° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Benton Beach Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW3030FW3030
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/1,075 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
St Cloud StateSCSM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.6 mi away/1,040 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
St. CloudSTC
At an airfield/15.1 mi away/1,030 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/24.8 mi away/975 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Rice 3.6 EMN-BN-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/1,026 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RiceRCEM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/1,079 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 Rice (RCEM5), 2.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Benton Beach Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Ricecity, 3 mi
- St. Stephencity, 6 mi
- Royaltoncity, 9 mi
- Sartellcity, 9 mi
- Sauk Rapidscity, 10 mi
- Gilmancity, 10 mi
- Buckmancity, 11 mi
- St Cloudcity, 13 mi
- Bowluscity, 13 mi
- Foleycity, 14 mi
- Waite Parkcity, 14 mi
- St. Josephcity, 15 mi
Beaches near Benton Beach Park
- Saint John's Beach16 mi
- Avon Beach17 mi
- Saulsbury Beach52 mi
- Rice Street Beach53 mi
- Lake Le Homme Dieu Beach57 mi
- LeHomme Dieu Beach Park57 mi
- Rotary Beach Park59 mi
- Glenwood Beach park60 mi