Dovray MN-30 Mile Post 49MN038
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/1,563 ft/75 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lake Shetek State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Murray 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.
43°
56°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 35°·Fresh breeze 20 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lake Shetek State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Shetek State Park is 43° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 38° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. Rain is possible tomorrow (39%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
82%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
43feels35
20mph
Today
Oct 15
5641
86%
19mph
Fri
Oct 16
4938
39%
26mph
Sat
Oct 17
5931
23mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
21mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7351
13%
12mph
43°
56°41°
49°38°
59°31°
65°41°
65°42°
69°43°
73°51°
As of 11:00 PM in Lake Shetek State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Lake Shetek State Park
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 45 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 Lake Shetek State Park
0.39 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
- 0.39in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake Shetek State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 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
- 1.53 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,488 ft
- County
- Murray County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.1090° N
- Longitude
- 95.6927° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Shetek State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SlaytonDVP
At an airfield/9.5 mi away/1,624 ft/136 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
West Fork Des Moines River 7 NE AvocaAVOM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.3 mi away/1,430 ft/58 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.9 mi away/1,621 ft/133 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Slayton 7.1 NNWMN-MY-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,687 ft/199 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TracyTCYM5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/1,401 ft/87 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 Tracy (TCYM5), 9.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.