Citizen station FW1482FW1482
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,007 ft/132 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cedar Rock State Park, Iowa
State Park in Buchanan County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast 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.
48°
53°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 42°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cedar Rock State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cedar Rock State Park is 48° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
76%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
48feels42
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5342
47%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5831
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6439
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7349
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7454
15%
48°
53°42°
58°31°
64°39°
66°43°
70°44°
73°49°
74°54°
As of 12:00 AM in Cedar Rock State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Cedar Rock State Park
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 32 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good-
- Ozone-17 ppb15.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- 23TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cedar Rock State Park
0.89 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.89in
- Last 3 days
- 0.89in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cedar Rock State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.19 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 875 ft
- County
- Buchanan County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.3945° N
- Longitude
- 91.7902° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Cedar Rock State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
IndependenceIIB
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/965 ft/90 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Urbana (I-380)RURI4
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/991 ft/116 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 5.4 ESEIA-BC-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/915 ft/40 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Stanley 4 WSNYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/17.2 mi away/1,129 ft/254 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 Stanley 4 W (SNYI4), 17.2 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Cedar Rock State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Quasquetoncity, 2 mi
- Rowleycity, 3 mi
- Winthropcity, 6 mi
- Independencecity, 7 mi
- Walkercity, 7 mi
- Masonvillecity, 12 mi
- Brandoncity, 12 mi
- Urbanacity, 13 mi
- Center Pointcity, 14 mi
- Jesupcity, 15 mi
- Coggoncity, 16 mi
- Auroracity, 16 mi