Ortonville 7NWOSPM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/1,003 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 73° after 81° today.
Now. Big Stone Lake State Park is 62° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 83°, and the coolest Monday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:03 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 28 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Big Stone Lake State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Watertown (SD), 45 miles off.
Yesterday measured 59, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.10 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Big Stone Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ortonville 7NWOSPM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/1,003 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
OrtonvilleVVV
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/1,099 ft/126 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
U.S.75 - Ortonville - MP 132.7MN137
Beside a road/8.8 mi away/1,063 ft/90 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KC0PSRKC0PSR
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.7 mi away/1,082 ft/109 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ortonville 2.8 NNWMN-BS-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/982 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ortonville 1NORVM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/1,089 ft/116 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.