At an airfield/3.9 mi away/1,276 ft/182 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Fillmore County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest into 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.
48°
55°/49°
Overcast·
Feels like 42°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park is 48° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 2 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (73%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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. 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 day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
93%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
48feels42
15mph
Today
Oct 15
5549
100%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5042
73%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5631
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6242
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6446
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6845
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7050
12%
48°
55°49°
50°42°
56°31°
62°42°
64°46°
68°45°
70°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 28 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Ozone16Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
- 17TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park
0.87 in in the last 24 hours, 0.92 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.87in
- Last 3 days
- 0.92in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 95%
Visibility
How far you can see at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 4.74 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,094 ft
- County
- Fillmore County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 43.6332° N
- Longitude
- 92.2292° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/1,260 ft/166 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5916GW5916
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.8 mi away/1,232 ft/138 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Eyota 2NEWIRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.5 mi away/1,197 ft/103 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Preston 8.1 SWMN-FM-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,314 ft/220 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
South Branch Root River AT PrestonPTNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.2 mi away/961 ft/133 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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