Fairfax 5S - Fort RidgelyFRGM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/979 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort Ridgely State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Nicollet County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, and southwest Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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°
53°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Fort Ridgely State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 53° today.
Now. Fort Ridgely State Park is 45° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
89%Humidity
94%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
45feels39
22%
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5340
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6132
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6642
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6642
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7350
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7353
10%
45°
53°40°
61°32°
66°42°
66°42°
70°44°
73°50°
73°53°
As of 3:00 AM in Fort Ridgely State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Fort Ridgely State Park
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 35 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Ridgely State Park
0.42 in in the last 24 hours, 0.52 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.42in
- Last 3 days
- 0.52in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 81%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Ridgely State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.91 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 988 ft
- County
- Nicollet County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.4567° N
- Longitude
- 94.7450° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fort Ridgely 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 now4 instruments
Morton MN-19 Mile Post 78MN031
Beside a road/13.8 mi away/840 ft/148 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
New Ulm MuniULM
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/1,010 ft/22 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW7572DW7572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.8 mi away/1,002 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sleepy Eye 7.7 NNWMN-BW-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,023 ft/35 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GaylordGLDM5
At a cooperative observer's station/26.7 mi away/1,014 ft/26 ft above 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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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.