Pipestone RAWSRPPM5
A remote fire weather station/1.1 mi away/1,722 ft/61 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota
National Monument in Pipestone County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible, with the coldest readings expected east of Interstate 29. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From late tonight 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.
44°
50°/37°
Overcast·
Feels like 36°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pipestone National Monument until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 50° today.
Now. Pipestone National Monument is 44° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 59°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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
37Air quality
100%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
44feels36
17mph
Today
Oct 16
5037
19%
26mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
21mph
Sun
Oct 18
6540
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7351
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
7253
13%
44°
50°37°
59°30°
65°40°
65°41°
69°43°
73°51°
72°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Pipestone National Monument
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 34 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)27Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pipestone National Monument
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.43in
- Last 3 days
- 0.43in
Visibility
How far you can see at Pipestone National Monument, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Monument
- Area
- 0.48 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,661 ft
- County
- Pipestone County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.0138° N
- Longitude
- 96.3248° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Pipestone National Monument, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
PipestonePQN
At an airfield/2.5 mi away/1,736 ft/75 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
U.S.75 - Trosky - MP 30.3MN154
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/1,759 ft/98 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.6 mi away/1,621 ft/40 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
PipestonePIPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.1 mi away/1,647 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Pipestone 0.6 WNWMN-PS-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/1,720 ft/59 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Pipestone (PIPM5), 0.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:26. measured daily
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