Minnesota River Near Lac Qui Parle05301000
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.9 mi away/901 ft/74 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lac Qui Parle State Park, Minnesota
State Park in Chippewa County, Minnesota62°
79°/57°
Clear·
Feels like 62°·Gentle breeze 9 mph S
Now. Lac Qui Parle State Park is 62° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 81°, and the coolest Monday, near 56°. Rain is possible Monday (39%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:55 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:01 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.
0UV Low
55Air quality
57%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
62feels62
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7957
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 7
7249
12mph
Thu
Oct 8
6745
partly cloudy day
Fri
Oct 9
7246
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
8157
14mph
Sun
Oct 11
7058
11%
Mon
Oct 12
5647
39%
62°
79°57°
72°49°
67°45°
72°46°
81°57°
70°58°
56°47°
As of 2:00 AM in Lac Qui Parle State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
The air at Lac Qui Parle State Park
Index 55, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Southwestern Minnesota (MN), 25 miles off.
55Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Ozone35Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)55Moderate-
The days ahead
Good each day through Thu Oct 8, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 52YesterdayOct 5
- 39TodayOct 6
- GoodWedOct 7
- GoodThuOct 8
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lac Qui Parle State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lac Qui Parle State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.41 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 975 ft
- County
- Chippewa County
- State
- Minnesota
- Latitude
- 45.0322° N
- Longitude
- 95.9034° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lac Qui Parle State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
T.H.212 - Dawson - MP 24.1MN153
Beside a road/7.3 mi away/1,047 ft/72 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MontevideoMVE
At an airfield/10.4 mi away/1,033 ft/58 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KC0PSRKC0PSR
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.9 mi away/1,082 ft/107 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Montevideo 8.5 WNWMN-LQ-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/1,015 ft/40 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Watson 1 NEWTSM5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,070 ft/95 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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