U.S.75 - Trosky - MP 30.3MN154
Beside a road/5.2 mi away/1,759 ft/118 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Split Rock Creek State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Pipestone County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * WHEN...From midnight tonight 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.
41°
51°/37°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 32°·Fresh breeze 19 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Split Rock Creek State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 51° today.
Now. Split Rock Creek State Park is 41° and mostly cloudy at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 12 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 Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
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.
2UV Low
24Air quality
76%Humidity
71%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
41feels32
19mph
Today
Oct 16
5137
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5931
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6340
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6341
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6744
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7150
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7251
overcast
41°
51°37°
59°31°
63°40°
63°41°
67°44°
71°50°
72°51°
As of 11:00 AM in Split Rock Creek State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Split Rock Creek State Park
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 30 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
- Ozone24Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Split Rock Creek State Park
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.24in
- Last 3 days
- 0.58in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 41%
Visibility
How far you can see at Split Rock Creek State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.98 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,641 ft
- County
- Pipestone County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 43.9070° N
- Longitude
- 96.3672° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Split Rock Creek State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
PipestonePQN
At an airfield/6.2 mi away/1,736 ft/95 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pipestone RAWSRPPM5
A remote fire weather station/8.8 mi away/1,722 ft/81 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.6 mi away/1,621 ft/20 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pipestone 0.6 WNWMN-PS-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/1,720 ft/79 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
PipestonePIPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/1,647 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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