In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/1,225 ft/32 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Rice Lake State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Dodge 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.
47°
53°/43°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Rice Lake State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rice Lake State Park is 47° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 1 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (78%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
87%Humidity
89%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
47feels41
19%
Today
Oct 15
5343
98%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5037
78%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5530
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6338
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6442
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6841
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7148
16%
47°
53°43°
50°37°
55°30°
63°38°
64°42°
68°41°
71°48°
As of 9:00 PM in Rice Lake State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Rice Lake State Park
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 31 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone13Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
- 17TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rice Lake State Park
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.83in
- Last 3 days
- 0.83in
Visibility
How far you can see at Rice Lake State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.74 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,257 ft
- County
- Dodge County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.1025° N
- Longitude
- 93.0457° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rice Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
OwatonnaOWA
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/1,148 ft/109 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/1,119 ft/138 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Morristown - Cannon RiverMRTM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.8 mi away/1,005 ft/252 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Claremont 4.4 NNWMN-DD-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/1,277 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OwatonnaOWAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/1,138 ft/119 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 Owatonna (OWAM5), 9.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Rice Lake State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Claremontcity, 5 mi
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- Medfordcity, 11 mi
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