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Beside a road/4.2 mi away/863 ft/103 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Creek State Park, Iowa
State Park in Polk County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
50°
61°/54°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Big Creek State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. Big Creek State Park is 50° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 3 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
76%Humidity
49%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
50feels44
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6154
98%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5243
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6641
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6745
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7246
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7552
10%
50°
61°54°
52°43°
59°33°
66°41°
67°45°
72°46°
75°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Big Creek State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Big Creek State Park
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 18 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone17Good17 ppb4.4 mi
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 14
- ModerateTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Big Creek State Park
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.50in
- Last 3 days
- 0.50in
Visibility
How far you can see at Big Creek State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 4.01 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 966 ft
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.7905° N
- Longitude
- 93.7316° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Big Creek State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/6.4 mi away/896 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0850GW0850
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/944 ft/22 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AnkenyIKV
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/888 ft/78 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/14.5 mi away/1,073 ft/107 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/28.1 mi away/903 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Polk City 1.0 NIA-PK-115
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/876 ft/90 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/932 ft/34 ft below 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 NWS Des Moines (DMX), 3.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 19:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Big Creek State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.