Citizen station GW6618GW6618
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/912 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
French Park Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Hennepin 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.
48°
53°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for French Park Beach until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. French Park Beach is 48° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (82%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
35Air quality
79%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
48feels44
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
5342
93%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5240
82%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6442
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6843
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
16%
48°
53°42°
52°40°
58°32°
64°42°
65°44°
68°43°
72°50°
As of 9:00 PM in French Park Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at French Park Beach
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Twin Cities (MN), 13 miles off.
35Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)35Good7.5 mi
- Ozone6Good10 ppb9.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good7.5 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide8Good9.8 ppb9.3 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.3 ppb8.1 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm8.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
- 33TodayOct 15
- 28FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at French Park Beach
0.63 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
- 0.63in
- Last 3 days
- 0.63in
Visibility
How far you can see at French Park Beach, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Hennepin County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 45.0175° N
- Longitude
- 93.4290° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest French Park Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/858 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Maple Grove I-94 Mile Post 217MN087
Beside a road/5.2 mi away/927 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Minnehaha Creek At Hiawatha Ave. In Minneapolis05289800
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.7 mi away/791 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/37.6 mi away/975 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Plymouth 1.8 SEMN-HN-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/940 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
New HopeNHPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.5 mi away/912 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 New Hope (NHPM5), 2.5 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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