At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/924 ft/153 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Minneopa State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Blue Earth 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°
52°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Light breeze 8 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Minneopa State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Minneopa State Park is 45° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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 11 hours 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
91%Humidity
89%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
45feels41
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5241
69%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6642
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6644
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
15%
Thu
Oct 22
7455
20%
45°
52°41°
59°32°
66°42°
66°44°
71°44°
74°51°
74°55°
As of 1:00 AM in Minneopa State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Minneopa State Park
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 6 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minneopa State Park
0.80 in in the last 24 hours, 0.85 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.80in
- Last 3 days
- 0.85in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 94%
Visibility
How far you can see at Minneopa State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 4.34 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 771 ft
- County
- Blue Earth County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.1848° N
- Longitude
- 94.1285° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Minneopa State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mankato US-169 Mile Post 52MN073
Beside a road/5.1 mi away/797 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MankatoMKT
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/1,020 ft/249 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW7572DW7572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/1,002 ft/231 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake Crystal 6.0 NEMN-BU-90
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/973 ft/202 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
North MankatoNMAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/1,004 ft/233 ft above 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 North Mankato (NMAM5), 4.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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