Minnesota River Near Jordan05330000
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/690 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area, Minnesota
State Recreation Area in Scott 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°
54°/44°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area is 46° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, with some 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 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (79%). Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
79%Humidity
65%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
46feels40
12mph
Today
Oct 15
5444
93%
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
5342
79%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6543
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6644
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7351
17%
46°
54°44°
53°42°
59°33°
65°43°
66°44°
70°44°
73°51°
As of 10:00 PM in Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 22 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good11.5 mi
- Ozone13Good16 ppb11.5 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0 ppb19.9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm19.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
- 28TodayOct 15
- 28FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area
0.69 in in the last 24 hours, 0.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.69in
- Last 3 days
- 0.75in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 92%
Visibility
How far you can see at Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 5.24 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 698 ft
- County
- Scott County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.6816° N
- Longitude
- 93.6850° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area, 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 EW0600EW0600
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.7 mi away/945 ft/247 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
New Prague MN-19 Mile Post 149MN079
Beside a road/10.0 mi away/1,008 ft/310 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/888 ft/190 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Carver 4.7 SSWMN-CV-57
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/854 ft/156 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jordan 1SWJORM5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/896 ft/198 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 Jordan 1SW (JORM5), 3.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 05:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Jordancity, 3 mi
- Belle Plainecity, 6 mi
- Carvercity, 6 mi
- Colognecity, 8 mi
- Chaskacity, 10 mi
- New Praguecity, 11 mi
- Shakopeecity, 11 mi
- Victoriacity, 12 mi
- Waconiacity, 12 mi
- Prior Lakecity, 13 mi
- Norwood Young Americacity, 13 mi
- Heidelbergcity, 13 mi