In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/361 ft/23 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Parks/Connecticut/Minnie Island State Park
Minnie Island State Park, Connecticut
State Park in Connecticut58°
68°/46°
Rain·
Feels like 58°·Light breeze 7 mph S
Coming up. Rain is likely this morning, from about 10 AM, the chance peaking at 64% around 9 PM.
Now. Minnie Island State Park is 58° and rain at 9 AM. The dew point is 57°, so the air feels a little humid. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 63°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:07 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 9:55 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
21Air quality
95%Humidity
92%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
58feels58
34%
Today
Oct 16
6846
98%
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
5242
24%
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5432
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5836
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6341
13%
Wed
Oct 21
6243
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
5942
partly cloudy day
58°
68°46°
52°42°
54°32°
58°36°
63°41°
62°43°
59°42°
As of 9:00 AM in Minnie Island State Park, Connecticut.
Air quality
The air at Minnie Island State Park
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, New London-Groton (CT), 15 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good13 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good13 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- 22TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minnie Island State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Minnie Island State Park, the next 42 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Fri 1 PM, under a mile for 3 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 41,500 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 384 ft
- County
- -
- State
- Connecticut
- Latitude
- 41.5061° N
- Longitude
- 72.2220° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Minnie Island State Park, 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
SALEM - Rt82 at Salem Salt Shed CT US CTDOTCT030
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/328 ft/56 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
New LondonNDBC-NLHC3
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/15.1 mi away/10 ft/374 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Uncasville-Oxoboxo Valley 5.6 NWCT-NL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/451 ft/67 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
NorwichNRWC3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/33 ft/351 ft below 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 Norwich (NRWC3), 8.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Connecticut
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Minnie Island State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Oxoboxo Rivercommunity, 7 mi
- Colchestercommunity, 7 mi
- Norwichcity, 8 mi
- Gales Ferrycommunity, 9 mi
- Balticcommunity, 10 mi
- Mooduscommunity, 11 mi
- Conning Towers-Nautilus Parkcommunity, 12 mi
- Waterfordcommunity, 12 mi
- New Londoncity, 12 mi
- Nianticcommunity, 13 mi
- South Windhamcommunity, 13 mi
- Mashantucketcommunity, 13 mi