Minnesota River Near Lac Qui Parle05301000
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/901 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lac Qui Parle State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Chippewa 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.
46°
60°/41°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lac Qui Parle State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 60° today.
Now. Lac Qui Parle State Park is 46° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. 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 17 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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
22Air quality
89%Humidity
84%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
46feels39
11%
17mph
Today
Oct 15
6041
48%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5138
26%
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
6331
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6943
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6741
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7041
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7551
12%
46°
60°41°
51°38°
63°31°
69°43°
67°41°
70°41°
75°51°
As of 11:00 PM in Lac Qui Parle State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Lac Qui Parle State Park
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 25 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
- Ozone16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 14
- 33TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lac Qui Parle State Park
0.05 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
- 0.05in
- Last 3 days
- 0.05in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lac Qui Parle State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.41 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 975 ft
- County
- Chippewa County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 45.0322° N
- Longitude
- 95.9034° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lac Qui Parle State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
T.H.212 - Dawson - MP 24.1MN153
Beside a road/7.3 mi away/1,047 ft/72 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MontevideoMVE
At an airfield/10.4 mi away/1,033 ft/58 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KC0PSRKC0PSR
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.9 mi away/1,082 ft/107 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Montevideo 8.5 WNWMN-LQ-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/1,015 ft/40 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Watson 1 NEWTSM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,070 ft/95 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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