Ottertail MN-78 Mile Post 34MN055
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/1,344 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 63° after 50° today.
Now. Battle Lake Public Beach is 40° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 10 hours 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Battle Lake Public Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 14 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Battle Lake Public Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ottertail MN-78 Mile Post 34MN055
Beside a road/9.0 mi away/1,344 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/1,331 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Pelican Rapids 6E - Maplewood SPMPWM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.2 mi away/1,397 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fergus FallsFFM
At an airfield/21.2 mi away/1,184 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Battle Lake 1.2 WNWMN-OT-67
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/1,366 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OttertailOTTM5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.8 mi away/1,302 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ottertail (OTTM5), 10.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 05:35. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.