Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Blue sky, white clouds, sunshine. Scores of common mergansers and coots and a few eared grebes, off the eastern shore. Pair of loons farther out.

Current conditions at Minneapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (KMSP)

Lat: 44.88°NLon: 93.23°WElev: 840ft.

Partly Cloudy

49°F

9°C

Humidity 35%

Wind Speed N 7 G 22 mph

Barometer 30.24 in (1024.6 mb)

Dewpoint 22°F (-6°C)

Visibility 10.00 mi

Wind Chill 46°F (8°C)

Last update 25 Apr 3:53 pm CDT

Monday, April 24, 2023

Monday, April 24, 2023

Mostly gray, some blue sky; breeze from the northwest. Scores of common mergensers busy off the eastern shore, scores of horned grebes, a few mallards, a pod of coots; loon calling and diving in the middle of the lake.

Current conditions at

Minneapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (KMSP)

Lat: 44.88°NLon: 93.23°WElev: 840ft.

Mostly Cloudy

46°F

8°C

Humidity 38%

Wind Speed Vrbl 6 mph

Barometer 30.12 in (1020.8 mb)

Dewpoint 22°F (-6°C)

Visibility 10.00 mi

Wind Chill 43°F (6°C)

Last update 24 Apr 5:53 pm CDT
















































Mostly Cloudy

46°F

8°C

Humidity 38%

Wind Speed Vrbl 6 mph

Barometer 30.12 in (1020.8 mb)

Dewpoint 22°F (-6°C)

Visibility 10.00 mi

Wind Chill 43°F (6°C)

Last update 24 Apr 5:53 pm CDT


Monday, September 20, 2021

Monday, September 20, 2021

More than a dozen geese clustered off the eastern shore. A few grebes farther out.


Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport

Lat: 44.89   Lon: -93.22   Elev: 834

Last Update on Sep 20, 4:53 pm CDT

Overcast

62 °F (17 °C)

Humidity: 90 %

Wind Speed: NW 15 G 31 MPH

Barometer: 29.66" (1003.9 mb)

Dewpoint: 59 °F (15 °C)

Visibility: 10.00 mi.

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Broken clouds, some warm sunlight; breeze from the northwest. Scores of coots and a few pied-billed grebes close to the northeastern shore.

Current conditions at Minneapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (KMSP)Lat: 44.88°N Lon: 93.23°W Elev: 840ft.

Mostly Cloudy

57°F

14°C

Humidity 32%

Wind Speed N 10 mph

Barometer 29.99 in (1015.8 mb)

Dewpoint 27°F (-3°C)

Visibility 10.00 mi

Last update 17 Apr 4:53 pm CDT

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Scilla blooming along the creek. Rumpled gray sky, cool breeze from the west. Scores of shovelers north of the southwest dock; a few buffleheads; many horned grebes; a few mergansers. Great blue heron stalking off the western shore. More horned grebes farther north and elsewhere along the shore. Goose crossing the path. More buffleheads and mergansers off the northern fishing dock. Scores of coots off the northeast shore. A few mallards; several pied-billed grebes. Call of a loon from the middle of the lake.

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Tuesday, April 17, 2021

Rolling gray sky, cold breeze from the southwest. Single mallard next to the western shore; dozens of coots riding the rolling gray water near the northeast shore.

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Gray overcast. Loon off the eastern shore; two mergansers farther out. Dozens of pied-billed grebes and coots, a couple of horned grebes and mallards, off the northeast shore.