Citizen station FW5890FW5890
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/941 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sand Point Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Scott 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.
36°
56°/34°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Light air 2 mph SW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sand Point Beach until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sand Point Beach is 36° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Friday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:11 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 56 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
33Air quality
81%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
36feels36
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5634
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6144
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6243
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6645
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6951
13%
Thu
Oct 22
7152
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7354
15%
14mph
36°
56°34°
61°44°
62°43°
66°45°
69°51°
71°52°
73°54°
As of 1:00 AM in Sand Point Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Sand Point Beach
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southern Twin Cities Metro (MN), 8 miles off.
33Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)33Good6.1 mi
- Ozone10Good9 ppb6.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-19.6 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide11Good12.5 ppb6.5 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.4 ppb17.8 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.3 ppm6.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 16
- 30TodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sand Point Beach
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.64 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.64in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 6%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sand Point Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Scott County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.7396° N
- Longitude
- 93.4064° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sand Point Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/6.5 mi away/888 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Burnsville I-35W Mile Post 4MN086
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/792 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Minnesota River Near Jordan05330000
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.0 mi away/690 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Prior Lake 1.1 NNEMN-SC-115
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/951 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Chanhassen WsfoMPXM5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.9 mi away/938 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 Chanhassen Wsfo (MPXM5), 10.9 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 19:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sand Point Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Prior Lakecity, 2 mi
- Savagecity, 2 mi
- Credit Rivercity, 5 mi
- Shakopeecity, 6 mi
- Buck Hillski area, 6 mi
- Burnsvillecity, 7 mi
- Bloomingtoncity, 8 mi
- Eden Prairiecity, 8 mi
- Lakevillecity, 9 mi
- Apple Valleycity, 10 mi
- Edinacity, 11 mi
- Chaskacity, 11 mi