Citizen station FW2295FW2295
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/1,458 ft/22 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Kilen Woods State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Jackson County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * 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.
45°
55°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Kilen Woods State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kilen Woods State Park is 45° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
77%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
45feels39
13mph
Today
Oct 15
5542
87%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5039
43%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6440
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
13%
45°
55°42°
50°39°
57°30°
64°40°
65°42°
70°43°
74°51°
As of 11:00 PM in Kilen Woods State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Kilen Woods State Park
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 61 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 14
- 28TodayOct 15
- 28FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Kilen Woods State Park
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.65in
- Last 3 days
- 0.65in
Visibility
How far you can see at Kilen Woods State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.33 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,436 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 43.7309° N
- Longitude
- 95.0686° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Kilen Woods State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-90 Mile Post 67MN008
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/1,508 ft/72 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Jackson MuniMJQ
At an airfield/6.9 mi away/1,447 ft/11 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/29.7 mi away/1,430 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jackson 4.6 NNWMN-JC-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,393 ft/43 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LakefieldLKFM5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/1,453 ft/17 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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Near Kilen Woods State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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