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At an airfield/8.0 mi away/1,154 ft/25 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cold Springs State Park, Iowa
State Park in Cass County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * 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.
45°
53°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Cold Springs State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cold Springs State Park is 45° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
71%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
45feels39
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5342
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6744
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7247
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7652
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7757
11%
45°
53°42°
59°32°
65°39°
67°44°
72°47°
76°52°
77°57°
As of 4:00 AM in Cold Springs State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Cold Springs State Park
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 22 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good22.2 mi
- Ozone19Good22 ppb22.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 21TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cold Springs State Park
0.83 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.83in
- Last 3 days
- 0.83in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cold Springs State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 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
- 1,129 ft
- County
- Cass County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.2934° N
- Longitude
- 95.0842° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cold Springs State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,153 ft/24 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Avoca (I-80)RAVI4
Beside a road/17.8 mi away/1,237 ft/108 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.1 mi away/1,322 ft/193 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lewis 3.7 NWIA-CS-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,135 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Atlantic 1 NEATLI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/1,168 ft/39 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
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Cold Springs State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.