Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/8.2 mi away/1,229 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Crystal Lake State Park, Iowa
State Park in Hancock 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.
50°
51°/38°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 17 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Crystal Lake State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Crystal Lake State Park is 50° and partly cloudy at 3 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 17 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 41° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
26Air quality
50%Humidity
51%Cloud
Now
3:00 PM
50feels44
17mph
Today
Oct 16
5138
18%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5530
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6138
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6340
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6642
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7047
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7251
overcast
50°
51°38°
55°30°
61°38°
63°40°
66°42°
70°47°
72°51°
As of 3:00 PM in Crystal Lake State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Crystal Lake State Park
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 72 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Ozone26Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Crystal Lake State Park
0.10 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.10in
- Last 3 days
- 1.00in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 10%
Visibility
How far you can see at Crystal Lake State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1,200,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,258 ft
- County
- Hancock County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.2274° N
- Longitude
- 93.7866° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Crystal Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/12.5 mi away/1,270 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/1,220 ft/38 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Britt 8.2 NNWIA-HN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/1,332 ft/74 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Forest City 2 NNEFSCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.8 mi away/1,263 ft/5 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 Crystal Lake State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.