At an airfield/7.7 mi away/1,276 ft/62 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mystery Cave State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Fillmore County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 expected. * WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central, north central, southwest, 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.
43°
49°/41°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 36°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Mystery Cave State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely this morning, from about 7 AM, the chance peaking at 52% around 8 AM.
Now. Mystery Cave State Park is 43° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
93%Humidity
87%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
43feels36
14mph
Today
Oct 16
4941
77%
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5531
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6141
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6343
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6644
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6948
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7054
14%
43°
49°41°
55°31°
61°41°
63°43°
66°44°
69°48°
70°54°
As of 3:00 AM in Mystery Cave State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Mystery Cave State Park
Index 20, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 27 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mystery Cave State Park
0.82 in in the last 24 hours, 0.90 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.82in
- Last 3 days
- 0.90in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 91%
Visibility
How far you can see at Mystery Cave State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.13 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,338 ft
- County
- Fillmore County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 43.6210° N
- Longitude
- 92.3135° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Mystery Cave State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/8.3 mi away/1,260 ft/78 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5916GW5916
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.7 mi away/1,232 ft/106 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Eyota 2NEWIRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.9 mi away/1,197 ft/141 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Preston 12.1 WSWMN-FM-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,244 ft/94 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Spring ValleySPGM5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/1,316 ft/22 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 Spring Valley (SPGM5), 6.4 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.