Citizen station FW5890FW5890
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/941 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Orchard Lake Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Dakota 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.
45°
52°/44°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Orchard Lake Beach until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Orchard Lake Beach is 45° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (85%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
82%Humidity
27%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
45feels40
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
5244
96%
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
5141
85%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6442
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6944
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
17%
45°
52°44°
51°41°
57°32°
64°42°
65°44°
69°44°
72°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Orchard Lake Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Orchard Lake Beach
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 4 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good1.7 mi
- Ozone11Good12 ppb11.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-21.4 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide7Good7.9 ppb18.6 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb19.4 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm1.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
- 28TodayOct 15
- 28FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Orchard Lake Beach
0.81 in in the last 24 hours, 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.81in
- Last 3 days
- 0.94in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 86%
Visibility
How far you can see at Orchard Lake Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Dakota County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.7007° N
- Longitude
- 93.3162° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Orchard Lake Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/961 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Burnsville I-35W Mile Post 4MN086
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/792 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/13.4 mi away/833 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lakeville 3.0 WNWMN-DK-300
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/990 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Farmington CwsuZMPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/909 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Orchard Lake Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Buck Hillski area, 2 mi
- Credit Rivercity, 3 mi
- Lakevillecity, 4 mi
- Savagecity, 4 mi
- Burnsvillecity, 4 mi
- Prior Lakecity, 6 mi
- Apple Valleycity, 6 mi
- Farmingtoncity, 8 mi
- Bloomingtoncity, 9 mi
- Elko New Marketcity, 9 mi
- Rosemountcity, 10 mi
- Eagancity, 11 mi
Beaches near Orchard Lake Beach
- Crystal Lake Beach3 mi
- Sand Point Beach5 mi
- Watzl's Point Beach6 mi
- Bush Lake Beach10 mi
- Izaak Walton Beach10 mi
- Bryant Lake Park Swimming Beach14 mi
- Snelling Beach14 mi
- Round Lake Beach14 mi