Ottertail MN-78 Mile Post 34MN055
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/1,344 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Minnesota/Balmoral
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 49° after 57° today.
Now. Balmoral is 44° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
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 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 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Balmoral, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.11 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Balmoral, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ottertail MN-78 Mile Post 34MN055
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/1,344 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.0 mi away/1,331 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Pelican Rapids 6E - Maplewood SPMPWM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.5 mi away/1,397 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Wadena MuniADC
At an airfield/21.5 mi away/1,371 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Battle Lake 5.9 NNEMN-OT-49
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,341 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OttertailOTTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/1,302 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ottertail (OTTM5), 4.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 04:43. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.