In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/1,225 ft/32 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Rice Lake State Park is 58° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 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 79°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. Rain is possible Monday (40%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:51 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 29 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Rice Lake State Park, Minnesota.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 31 miles off.
Good each day through Thu Oct 8, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.03 in over the last 3 days, to Tue 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Thu 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Wed 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Rice Lake 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
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/1,225 ft/32 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
OwatonnaOWA
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/1,148 ft/109 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/1,119 ft/138 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Morristown - Cannon RiverMRTM5
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.8 mi away/1,005 ft/252 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Claremont 4.4 NNWMN-DD-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/1,277 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OwatonnaOWAM5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/1,138 ft/119 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Owatonna (OWAM5), 9.2 miles from here, read 4 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.