Early - US20/US71ERYI4
Beside a road/13.8 mi away/1,352 ft/127 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Black Hawk State Park, Iowa
State Park in Sac County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29-32 expected and widespread frost. * WHERE...Much of central 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.
48°
52°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Black Hawk State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Black Hawk State Park is 48° and clear at 6 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:27 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.
0UV Low
28Air quality
62%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
6:00 PM
48feels44
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5241
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5632
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6340
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6442
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6846
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7251
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7454
overcast
48°
52°41°
56°32°
63°40°
64°42°
68°46°
72°51°
74°54°
As of 6:00 PM in Black Hawk State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Black Hawk State Park
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 56 miles off.
28Good
- Ozone28Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
- 21TodayOct 16
- 31SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Black Hawk State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.70 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.70in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Black Hawk State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.16 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,225 ft
- County
- Sac County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.2931° N
- Longitude
- 95.0277° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Black Hawk State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
CarrollCIN
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/1,198 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.7 mi away/1,322 ft/97 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/39.1 mi away/1,119 ft/106 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Sac City 0.6 SSWIA-SC-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,276 ft/51 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sac CitySACI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/1,191 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 Sac City (SACI4), 9.2 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 04:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Black Hawk State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.