FrontenacFSPM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/759 ft/218 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Frontenac State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Goodhue 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°
51°/38°
Overcast·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Frontenac State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Frontenac State Park is 45° and overcast at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 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
14Air quality
91%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
45feels38
12%
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5138
13%
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6339
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6441
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6741
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7047
13%
Thu
Oct 22
7152
21%
45°
51°38°
57°31°
63°39°
64°41°
67°41°
70°47°
71°52°
As of 8:00 AM in Frontenac State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Frontenac State Park
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 38 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Frontenac State Park
1.25 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.25in
- Last 3 days
- 1.25in
Visibility
How far you can see at Frontenac State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 10 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 4.68 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 977 ft
- County
- Goodhue County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.5380° N
- Longitude
- 92.4101° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Frontenac State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Red WingRGK
At an airfield/5.3 mi away/784 ft/193 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW6886FW6886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/1,074 ft/97 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
U.S.63 - Lake City - MP 62.9MN143
Beside a road/10.9 mi away/1,132 ft/155 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Frontenac 1.8 NEMN-GH-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/690 ft/287 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Red WingRWGM5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/686 ft/291 ft below 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 Red Wing (RWGM5), 6.3 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Frontenac State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Frontenaccommunity, 3 mi
- Red Wingcity, 7 mi
- Lake Citycity, 9 mi
- Bellechestercity, 13 mi
- Goodhuecity, 14 mi
- Welch Villageski area, 16 mi
- Zumbro Fallscity, 17 mi
- Mazeppacity, 19 mi
- Miesvillecity, 21 mi
- Millvillecity, 21 mi
- Zumbrotacity, 21 mi
- Wabashacity, 22 mi