In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/1,225 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lake Kohlmeier Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Steele County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * 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.
49°
50°/36°
Clear·
Feels like 45°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lake Kohlmeier Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Kohlmeier Beach is 49° and clear at 5 PM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 40° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 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 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 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:12 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
24Air quality
42%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
5:00 PM
49feels45
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5036
38%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5531
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6138
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6340
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6541
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6947
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7151
overcast
49°
50°36°
55°31°
61°38°
63°40°
65°41°
69°47°
71°51°
As of 5:00 PM in Lake Kohlmeier Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Lake Kohlmeier Beach
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 40 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone24Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- 26SatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake Kohlmeier Beach
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.83 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.12in
- Last 3 days
- 0.83in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 14%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake Kohlmeier Beach, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Steele County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.0701° N
- Longitude
- 93.2459° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Kohlmeier Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
OwatonnaOWA
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/1,148 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Albert Lea I-35 Mile Post 30MN096
Beside a road/10.5 mi away/1,193 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Morristown - Cannon RiverMRTM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.9 mi away/1,005 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Owatonna 0.2 WSWMN-SE-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,171 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OwatonnaOWAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/1,138 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 Owatonna (OWAM5), 2.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Lake Kohlmeier Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Owatonnacity, 2 mi
- Medfordcity, 7 mi
- Claremontcity, 12 mi
- Wasecacity, 13 mi
- Ellendalecity, 14 mi
- Warsawcommunity, 14 mi
- Morristowncity, 15 mi
- Faribaultcity, 15 mi
- Blooming Prairiecity, 17 mi
- Genevacity, 17 mi
- New Richlandcity, 17 mi
- West Concordcity, 18 mi
Beaches near Lake Kohlmeier Beach
- Albert Lea Beach29 mi
- Lake Byllesby Beach34 mi
- Cascade Lake Beach37 mi
- JHELL Beach39 mi
- Hiniker Pond Public Beach39 mi
- Orchard Lake Beach44 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach45 mi
- Watzl's Point Beach46 mi