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At an airfield/15.2 mi away/988 ft/250 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Straight Lake State Park, Wisconsin
State Park in Polk County, Wisconsin* 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.
44°
52°/33°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Light breeze 6 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Straight Lake State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely late tonight, from about 4 AM (54%).
Now. Straight Lake State Park is 44° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (87%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 27°.
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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
39Air quality
97%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
44feels41
42%
Today
Oct 15
5233
96%
Fri
Oct 16
5034
87%
16mph
Sat
Oct 17
5627
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6235
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6336
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6635
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6843
17%
44°
52°33°
50°34°
56°27°
62°35°
63°36°
66°35°
68°43°
As of 9:00 PM in Straight Lake State Park, Wisconsin.
Air quality
The air at Straight Lake State Park
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, East Central Minnesota (MN), 36 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)39Good-
- Ozone17Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 22, good.
GoodModerate
- 22YesterdayOct 14
- 22TodayOct 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 Straight Lake State Park
0.79 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
- 0.79in
- Last 3 days
- 0.79in
Visibility
How far you can see at Straight Lake State Park, the next 41 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Thu 9 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 3.22 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,238 ft
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Latitude
- 45.6052° N
- Longitude
- 92.4221° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Straight Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
St. Croix Falls - USH 8 3 mi E of townSTXW3
Beside a road/16.5 mi away/1,191 ft/47 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW2192EW2192
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.8 mi away/1,018 ft/220 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lind RAWSLNDW3
A remote fire weather station/20.3 mi away/892 ft/346 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Luck 4.8 EWI-PK-59
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/1,224 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LuckLUCW3
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/1,207 ft/31 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 Luck (LUCW3), 3.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 16:22. measured daily
Elsewhere in Wisconsin
19 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Straight Lake State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Luckvillage, 3 mi
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- Milltownvillage, 7 mi
- Lewiscommunity, 7 mi
- Balsam Lakevillage, 11 mi
- Centuriavillage, 12 mi
- Sirenvillage, 13 mi
- St. Croix Fallscity, 17 mi
- Grantsburgvillage, 17 mi
- Webstervillage, 19 mi
- Turtle Lakevillage, 20 mi
- Cumberlandcity, 20 mi