Miltona 3SW - Lake Carlos SPLCLM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.9 mi away/1,402 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sandy Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Douglas County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Benton, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wright, Chippewa, Douglas, Lac Qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift, and Yellow Medicine Counties. * WHEN...From late tonight through Saturday morning. * 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.
41°
51°/37°
Overcast·
Feels like 32°·Fresh breeze 19 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sandy Beach until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 61° after 51° today.
Now. Sandy Beach is 41° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 12 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 61°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
81%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
41feels32
19mph
Today
Oct 16
5137
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6133
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6543
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6441
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6642
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7048
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7050
overcast
41°
51°37°
61°33°
65°43°
64°41°
66°42°
70°48°
70°50°
As of 6:00 AM in Sandy Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Sandy Beach
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, West Central Minnesota (MN), 29 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
- Ozone24Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandy Beach
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.03in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandy Beach, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Douglas County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 46.0569° N
- Longitude
- 95.3733° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sandy Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW3840GW3840
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/1,384 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AlexandriaAXN
At an airfield/13.2 mi away/1,421 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alexandria I-94 Mile Post 104MN015
Beside a road/15.2 mi away/1,440 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Miltona 1.2 SWMN-DS-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/1,405 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Long PrairieLNGM5
At a cooperative observer's station/24.1 mi away/1,355 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 Long Prairie (LNGM5), 24.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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Near Sandy Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Miltonacity, 4 mi
- Parkers Prairiecity, 7 mi
- Carloscity, 7 mi
- Urbankcity, 8 mi
- Millervillecity, 9 mi
- Garfieldcity, 10 mi
- Alexandriacity, 12 mi
- Brandoncity, 12 mi
- Nelsoncity, 13 mi
- Evansvillecity, 15 mi
- Viningcity, 16 mi
- Osakiscity, 17 mi