Elk Rock State Park, Iowa
State Park in Marion County, IowaAlert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Elk Rock State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Elk Rock State Park is 49° and overcast at 10 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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.
As of 10:00 AM in Elk Rock State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Elk Rock State Park
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 32 miles off.
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone16Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elk Rock State Park
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.24in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
Visibility
How far you can see at Elk Rock State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 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
- 1.43 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 775 ft
- County
- Marion County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.4070° N
- Longitude
- 93.0738° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Elk Rock 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 now5 instruments
PellaPEA
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/869 ft/94 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
PleasantvilleRPEI4
Beside a road/10.5 mi away/893 ft/118 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7443GW7443
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/937 ft/162 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/15.0 mi away/903 ft/128 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Knoxville 0.5 ENEIA-MA-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/879 ft/104 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pella 1 SPEAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/761 ft/14 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 Pella 1 S (PEAI4), 9.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Elk Rock State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Knoxvillecity, 6 mi
- Monroecity, 8 mi
- Pellacity, 8 mi
- Harveycity, 10 mi
- Pleasantvillecity, 10 mi
- Reasnorcity, 12 mi
- Swancity, 13 mi
- Melcher-Dallascity, 15 mi
- Leightoncity, 16 mi
- Prairie Citycity, 16 mi
- Runnellscity, 17 mi
- Sandyvillecity, 17 mi