I-494 and MN-5 I-494 Mile Post 18MN085
Beside a road/2.7 mi away/834 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shady Oak Beach, Minnesota
Beach in Hennepin County, Minnesota* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 34 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington Counties. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 8 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
45°
52°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 8 mph NW
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Shady Oak Beach until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Shady Oak Beach is 45° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 8 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 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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
24Air quality
91%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
45feels41
11%
Today
Oct 16
5242
81%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6444
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6545
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6945
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7251
16%
Thu
Oct 22
7255
23%
45°
52°42°
58°33°
64°44°
65°45°
69°45°
72°51°
72°55°
As of 2:00 AM in Shady Oak Beach, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Shady Oak Beach
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Twin Cities (MN), 12 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good8.9 mi
- Ozone15Good10 ppb9.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good10.1 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide2Good2.5 ppb9.4 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.2 ppb9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Shady Oak Beach
0.53 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.53in
- Last 3 days
- 0.53in
Visibility
How far you can see at Shady Oak Beach, the next 42 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
- 44.9099° N
- Longitude
- 93.4309° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Shady Oak Beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW6832DW6832
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/958 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/888 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At an airfield/9.9 mi away/833 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hopkins 1.5 WSWMN-HN-799
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/955 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
New HopeNHPM5
At a cooperative observer's station/7.4 mi away/912 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 New Hope (NHPM5), 7.4 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
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