Eyota 2NEWIRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/1,197 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Chester Woods Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Chester Woods Beach is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Chester Woods Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.95 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Chester Woods Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Eyota 2NEWIRM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/1,197 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Jct CR 7 I-90 Mile Post 226MN011
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/1,309 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW2899FW2899
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/1,247 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/1,165 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rochester 5.9 EMN-OL-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/1,118 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Elgin 2SSWEGNM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/1,086 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.