In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/1,621 ft/67 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Blue Mounds State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Rock County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * 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.
45°
56°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Blue Mounds State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Blue Mounds State Park is 45° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 28°.
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 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
67%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
45feels38
16mph
Today
Oct 15
5642
93%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5038
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5928
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6641
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7350
overcast
45°
56°42°
50°38°
59°28°
65°39°
66°41°
70°43°
73°50°
As of 10:00 PM in Blue Mounds State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Blue Mounds State Park
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 26 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)23Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Blue Mounds State Park
0.49 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
- 0.49in
- Last 3 days
- 0.49in
Visibility
How far you can see at Blue Mounds State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 3.32 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,554 ft
- County
- Rock County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 43.6889° N
- Longitude
- 96.2124° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Blue Mounds State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
LuverneLYV
At an airfield/4.7 mi away/1,430 ft/124 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-90 - Magnolia - MP 21.6MN147
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/1,499 ft/55 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pipestone RAWSRPPM5
A remote fire weather station/24.2 mi away/1,722 ft/168 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
LuverneLUVM5
At a cooperative observer's station/1.7 mi away/1,480 ft/74 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Luverne 0.6 NNEMN-RK-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/1,477 ft/77 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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