Citizen station FW1481FW1481
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/1,136 ft/31 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Backbone State Park, Iowa
State Park in Delaware County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast Iowa. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
43°
52°/40°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 37°·Gentle breeze 12 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Backbone State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Backbone State Park is 43° and mostly cloudy at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
32Air quality
91%Humidity
74%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
43feels37
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5240
53%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5630
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6337
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6540
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6842
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7146
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7351
13%
43°
52°40°
56°30°
63°37°
65°40°
68°42°
71°46°
73°51°
As of 5:00 AM in Backbone State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Backbone State Park
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 45 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Ozone-13 ppb24.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Backbone State Park
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, 1.50 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.10in
- Last 3 days
- 1.50in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 73%
Visibility
How far you can see at Backbone State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.74 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,105 ft
- County
- Delaware County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.6364° N
- Longitude
- 91.5375° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Backbone State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Manchester (US 20)RMNI4
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/1,014 ft/91 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
OelweinOLZ
At an airfield/22.5 mi away/1,076 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Harpers Ferry 5WSW - Yellow River Park RAWSYSPI4
A remote fire weather station/40.0 mi away/748 ft/357 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dundee 1.4 NNEIA-DW-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/1,019 ft/86 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Strawberry PointSPTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/1,204 ft/99 ft above 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 Strawberry Point (SPTI4), 3.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Backbone State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Strawberry Pointcity, 3 mi
- Dundeecity, 4 mi
- Lamontcity, 6 mi
- Edgewoodcity, 7 mi
- Auroracity, 10 mi
- Arlingtoncity, 10 mi
- Greeleycity, 10 mi
- Manchestercity, 11 mi
- Masonvillecity, 11 mi
- Volgacity, 12 mi
- Stanleycity, 14 mi
- Delawarecity, 15 mi