Citizen station GW6813GW6813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/911 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Wirth Lake 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.
46°
53°/43°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 10 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wirth Lake Beach until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wirth Lake Beach is 46° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 10 mph, gusting to 22 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 (83%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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. 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
31Air quality
73%Humidity
90%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
46feels41
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
5343
93%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5241
83%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6443
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6844
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
16%
46°
53°43°
52°41°
58°33°
64°43°
65°44°
68°44°
72°50°
As of 10:00 PM in Wirth Lake Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Wirth Lake Beach
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Twin Cities (MN), 7 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good2.9 mi
- Ozone9Good13 ppb3.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)13Good2.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide7Good7.7 ppb3.3 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.6 ppb2.3 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm2.3 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 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wirth Lake Beach
0.87 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.87in
- Last 3 days
- 0.87in
Visibility
How far you can see at Wirth Lake Beach, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Hennepin County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.9804° N
- Longitude
- 93.3231° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wirth Lake 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/858 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Minnehaha Creek At Hiawatha Ave. In Minneapolis05289800
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.0 mi away/791 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-494 and MN-5 I-494 Mile Post 18MN085
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/834 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Minneapolis 2.7 WNWMN-HN-485
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/861 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
New HopeNHPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 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), 3.4 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
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