Beside a road/6.1 mi away/955 ft/28 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Badger Creek State Recreation Area, Iowa
State Recreation Area in Madison County, Iowa58°
62°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 58°·Gentle breeze 13 mph SSW
Now. Badger Creek State Recreation Area is 58° and clear at 4 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:26 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.
2UV Low
31Air quality
32%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
58feels58
13mph
Today
Oct 17
6233
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6441
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6945
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7351
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7554
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7555
overcast
58°
62°33°
64°41°
66°43°
69°45°
73°51°
75°54°
75°55°
As of 4:00 PM in Badger Creek State Recreation Area, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Badger Creek State Recreation Area
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 14 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good17.1 mi
- Ozone31Good34 ppb17.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 22, good.
GoodModerate
- 22YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Mon 1 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Badger Creek State Recreation Area
None in the last 24 hours; 0.77 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.77in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Badger Creek State Recreation Area, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Mon 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Mon 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 1.78 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 927 ft
- County
- Madison County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.4814° N
- Longitude
- 93.9255° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Badger Creek State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station CW7529CW7529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/947 ft/20 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/965 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/19.6 mi away/896 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/33.5 mi away/903 ft/24 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/37.4 mi away/1,073 ft/146 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Van Meter 0.2 NNEIA-DL-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/876 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AdelADXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.2 mi away/961 ft/34 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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