Rutledge I-35 Mile Post 198MN005
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/1,069 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 2 AM, the chance peaking at 55% around 3 AM.
Now. Banning State Park is 44° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Banning State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.42 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Banning State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rutledge I-35 Mile Post 198MN005
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/1,069 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sandstone 6 W54932
At a climate reference station/6.8 mi away/1,130 ft/38 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Sandstone 6WSNDM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.9 mi away/1,129 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hinckley04W
At an airfield/9.4 mi away/1,020 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW8346FW8346
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.6 mi away/1,107 ft/15 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Finlayson 3.3 SEMN-PN-76
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/1,108 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SandstoneSNDM5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/1,129 ft/37 ft above 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.