In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/361 ft/23 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Parks/Connecticut/Minnie Island State Park
Minnie Island State Park, Connecticut
State Park in Connecticut* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 possible. * WHERE...In Connecticut, Northern Fairfield, Northern Middlesex, Northern New Haven, and Northern New London Counties. In New Jersey, Western Passaic County. In New York, Orange and Putnam Counties. * WHEN...From late Saturday night through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops and other sensitive vegetation.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
61°
68°/46°
Overcast·
Feels like 61°·Light breeze 7 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Minnie Island State Park until 9 AM Sunday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 68° today.
Now. Minnie Island State Park is 61° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 60°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 17 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 62°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. Rain is likely tomorrow (53%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
39Air quality
97%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
61feels61
15%
Today
Oct 16
6846
98%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
5141
53%
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5433
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5937
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6241
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
5843
14mph
Thu
Oct 22
5841
15%
13mph
61°
68°46°
51°41°
54°33°
59°37°
62°41°
58°43°
58°41°
As of 11:00 PM in Minnie Island State Park, Connecticut.
Air quality
The air at Minnie Island State Park
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, New London-Groton (CT), 15 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)39Good13 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good13 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- 22TodayOct 16
- 11SatOct 17
- 17SunOct 18
- 22MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 8 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minnie Island State Park
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.26in
- Last 3 days
- 0.26in
Visibility
How far you can see at Minnie Island State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 8 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 41,500 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 384 ft
- County
- -
- State
- Connecticut
- Latitude
- 41.5061° N
- Longitude
- 72.2220° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Minnie Island State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SALEM - Rt82 at Salem Salt Shed CT US CTDOTCT030
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/328 ft/56 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
New LondonNDBC-NLHC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/15.1 mi away/10 ft/374 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Uncasville-Oxoboxo Valley 5.6 NWCT-NL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/451 ft/67 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NorwichNRWC3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/33 ft/351 ft below 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 Norwich (NRWC3), 8.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Connecticut
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Minnie Island State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Oxoboxo Rivercommunity, 7 mi
- Colchestercommunity, 7 mi
- Norwichcity, 8 mi
- Gales Ferrycommunity, 9 mi
- Balticcommunity, 10 mi
- Mooduscommunity, 11 mi
- Conning Towers-Nautilus Parkcommunity, 12 mi
- Waterfordcommunity, 12 mi
- New Londoncity, 12 mi
- Nianticcommunity, 13 mi
- South Windhamcommunity, 13 mi
- Mashantucketcommunity, 13 mi