In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/872 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Rice Street Beach until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rice Street Beach is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Rice Street Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Northern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 6 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.62 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Rice Street Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/872 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Maple Grove I-94 Mile Post 217MN087
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/927 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/858 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Carlos Avery - Dnr Fire WxCAVM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.4 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/30.8 mi away/975 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Anoka 0.9 SSWMN-AA-84
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/856 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Elk RiverERVM5
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/909 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.