Donehower 2NBSPM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.8 mi away/1,194 ft/93 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Great River Bluffs State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Winona 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°
56°/47°
Overcast·
Feels like 44°·Light breeze 7 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Great River Bluffs State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 7 AM (57%).
Now. Great River Bluffs State Park is 48° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 4 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (66%). 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, 25% 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
86%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
48feels44
48%
Today
Oct 15
5647
100%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5241
66%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6340
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6942
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7147
overcast
48°
56°47°
52°41°
57°31°
63°40°
65°42°
69°42°
71°47°
As of 9:00 PM in Great River Bluffs State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Great River Bluffs State Park
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Driftless Area North (WI), 20 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone12Good14 ppb12.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Great River Bluffs State Park
0.92 in in the last 24 hours, 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.92in
- Last 3 days
- 0.94in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 98%
Visibility
How far you can see at Great River Bluffs State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 3.31 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,101 ft
- County
- Winona County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 43.9299° N
- Longitude
- 91.3706° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Great River Bluffs State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW1237FW1237
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/824 ft/277 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
U.S.61 - WinonaMN162
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/669 ft/432 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Winona MuniONA
At an airfield/19.6 mi away/656 ft/445 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dakota 0.4 WSWMN-WN-49
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/792 ft/309 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mississippi River AT La Crescent Dam 7LCRM5
At a dam/5.4 mi away/640 ft/461 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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