HawkeyeHKYI4
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/1,074 ft/25 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Echo Valley State Park, Iowa
State Park in Fayette County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest into west central Wisconsin. * 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°
58°/49°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Echo Valley State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Echo Valley State Park is 48° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is likely tomorrow (65%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
97%Humidity
82%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
48feels43
12mph
Today
Oct 15
5849
100%
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
5240
65%
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
5629
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6238
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6442
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6842
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7147
overcast
48°
58°49°
52°40°
56°29°
62°38°
64°42°
68°42°
71°47°
As of 11:00 PM in Echo Valley State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Echo Valley State Park
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 45 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- 39TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Echo Valley State Park
1.05 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
- 1.05in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
Visibility
How far you can see at Echo Valley State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.18 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,099 ft
- County
- Fayette County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.9496° N
- Longitude
- 91.7699° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Echo Valley State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW7645GW7645
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.4 mi away/1,025 ft/74 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
OelweinOLZ
At an airfield/21.2 mi away/1,076 ft/23 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Harpers Ferry 5WSW - Yellow River Park RAWSYSPI4
A remote fire weather station/30.7 mi away/748 ft/351 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fayette 3NNWFYTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/1,122 ft/23 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
West Union 6.1 NIA-FY-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/935 ft/164 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fayette 3NNW (FYTI4), 5.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Echo Valley State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.