Mississippi River AT Bellevue LD12BLVI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/587 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bellevue State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bellevue State Park is 51° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:08 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Bellevue State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.54 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Bellevue State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mississippi River AT Bellevue LD12BLVI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.2 mi away/587 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DubuqueDBQ
At an airfield/17.8 mi away/1,079 ft/449 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/18.3 mi away/823 ft/193 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW9979DW9979
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.3 mi away/638 ft/8 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bellevue 0.3 SSWIA-JC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/634 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bellevue LD 12BLVI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/587 ft/43 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.