Citizen station FW3695FW3695
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/823 ft/60 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fort Snelling State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Dakota County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and 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.
47°
53°/46°
Overcast·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Fort Snelling State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fort Snelling State Park is 47° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (87%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
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-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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
75%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
47feels43
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
5346
95%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5244
87%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5834
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6545
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6546
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6946
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7252
16%
12mph
47°
53°46°
52°44°
58°34°
65°45°
65°46°
69°46°
72°52°
As of 10:00 PM in Fort Snelling State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Fort Snelling State Park
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Twin Cities (MN), 5 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good6.2 mi
- Ozone9Good13 ppb7.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)13Good10.3 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide7Good7.7 ppb7.2 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.6 ppb8.5 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm7.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
- 33TodayOct 15
- 28FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Snelling State Park
0.82 in in the last 24 hours, 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.82in
- Last 3 days
- 0.87in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 94%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Snelling State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 5.43 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 763 ft
- County
- Dakota County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.8838° N
- Longitude
- 93.1722° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fort Snelling State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MinneapolisMSP
At an airfield/2.9 mi away/869 ft/106 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At an airfield/2.9 mi away/833 ft/70 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MN-110 and I-494 MN-10 Mile Post 5MN090
Beside a road/4.6 mi away/996 ft/233 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mendota Heights 1.4 WMN-DK-143
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/971 ft/208 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Univ Of Minn St PaulUMNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.0 mi away/948 ft/185 ft above 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 Univ Of Minn St Paul (UMNM5), 7.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Fort Snelling State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mendotacity, 1 mi
- Lilydalecity, 2 mi
- Mendota Heightscity, 2 mi
- Sunfish Lakecity, 4 mi
- West St. Paulcity, 4 mi
- Eagancity, 5 mi
- Richfieldcity, 5 mi
- St. Paulcity, 6 mi
- Saint Paulcity, 6 mi
- South St. Paulcity, 6 mi
- Inver Grove Heightscity, 7 mi
- Falcon Heightscity, 7 mi