Mankato US-169 Mile Post 52MN073
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/797 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Hiniker Pond Public Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Blue Earth County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, and southwest Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From 1 AM 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.
44°
51°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 11 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Hiniker Pond Public Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hiniker Pond Public Beach is 44° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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.
0UV Low
21Air quality
93%Humidity
90%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
44feels39
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5141
75%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5831
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6542
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7351
16%
Thu
Oct 22
7355
21%
44°
51°41°
58°31°
65°42°
65°44°
70°44°
73°51°
73°55°
As of 1:00 AM in Hiniker Pond Public Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Hiniker Pond Public Beach
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 6 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hiniker Pond Public Beach
0.61 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.61in
- Last 3 days
- 0.64in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 95%
Visibility
How far you can see at Hiniker Pond Public Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Blue Earth County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.1851° N
- Longitude
- 94.0181° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Hiniker Pond Public Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.2 mi away/924 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MankatoMKT
At an airfield/5.4 mi away/1,020 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW7572DW7572
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.0 mi away/1,002 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
North Mankato 1.0 ESEMN-NC-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/813 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
North MankatoNMAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/1.4 mi away/1,004 ft/- ft from 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 North Mankato (NMAM5), 1.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Hiniker Pond Public Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- North Mankatocity, 1 mi
- Mankatocity, 3 mi
- Skylinecity, 3 mi
- Eagle Lakecity, 7 mi
- Kasotacity, 8 mi
- Madison Lakecity, 10 mi
- St. Petercity, 10 mi
- Nicolletcity, 10 mi
- St. Claircity, 11 mi
- Lake Crystalcity, 11 mi
- Garden Citycommunity, 12 mi
- Good Thundercity, 13 mi
Beaches near Hiniker Pond Public Beach
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