Citizen station KMNDEEPH5KMNDEEPH5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/928 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sandy Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Hennepin County, Minnesota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and west central Wisconsin. * WHEN...From late Friday night 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.
45°
52°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 11 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sandy Beach until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sandy Beach is 45° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 41°, 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 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
83%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
45feels40
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5242
80%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6443
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6944
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7251
16%
Thu
Oct 22
7254
23%
45°
52°42°
58°33°
64°43°
65°44°
69°44°
72°51°
72°54°
As of 1:00 AM in Sandy Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Sandy Beach
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Twin Cities (MN), 17 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good9.8 mi
- Ozone12Good12 ppb9.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good13.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide4Good4.9 ppb14.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb13.5 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm13.5 mi
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 Sandy Beach
0.73 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.73in
- Last 3 days
- 0.73in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandy Beach, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Hennepin County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 44.9287° N
- Longitude
- 93.5384° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Sandy Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-494 and MN-5 I-494 Mile Post 18MN085
Beside a road/4.1 mi away/834 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/8.0 mi away/888 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/833 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Crescent Lake No1S2002
At a soil climate station/39.4 mi away/975 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Deephaven 1.0 SWMN-HN-139
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/990 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Chanhassen WsfoMPXM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 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), 5.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 19:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Minnesota
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sandy Beach
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Deephavencity, 1 mi
- Greenwoodcity, 1 mi
- Woodlandcity, 2 mi
- Excelsiorcity, 2 mi
- Tonka Baycity, 3 mi
- Minnetonka Beachcity, 3 mi
- Shorewoodcity, 3 mi
- Wayzatacity, 3 mi
- Minnetonkacity, 4 mi
- Long Lakecity, 4 mi
- Oronocity, 4 mi
- Spring Parkcity, 5 mi
Beaches near Sandy Beach
- Rocky Beachunder 1 mi
- Linwood Beachunder 1 mi
- Nocomo Beachunder 1 mi
- Deephaven Beachunder 1 mi
- Deephaven Main Beachunder 1 mi
- Point Charming Beachunder 1 mi
- Robinson's Bay Beach1 mi
- Wekota Beach2 mi