92 @ Muscatine/Ms RiverSS0693
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fairport State Recreation Area, Iowa
State Recreation Area in Muscatine County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast 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.
47°
56°/44°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 41°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Fairport State Recreation Area until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fairport State Recreation Area is 47° and partly cloudy at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
32Air quality
85%Humidity
57%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
47feels41
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5644
15%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6638
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6940
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7244
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7547
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7652
11%
47°
56°44°
58°33°
66°38°
69°40°
72°44°
75°47°
76°52°
As of 8:00 AM in Fairport State Recreation Area, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Fairport State Recreation Area
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Muscatine (IA), 7 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good7.9 mi
- Ozone-11 ppb18.5 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-12.3 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb7.5 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm18.5 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fairport State Recreation Area
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.20in
- Last 3 days
- 0.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fairport State Recreation Area, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 480,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 568 ft
- County
- Muscatine County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.4330° N
- Longitude
- 90.9230° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fairport State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MuscatineMUT
At an airfield/12.2 mi away/543 ft/25 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3396DW3396
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.5 mi away/735 ft/167 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Le Claire LD14LECI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.2 mi away/679 ft/111 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Muscatine 5.2 ENEIA-MC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.3 mi away/671 ft/103 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Muscatine 2 NMSTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/699 ft/131 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 Muscatine 2 N (MSTI4), 6.7 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 Fairport State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fairportcommunity, under 1 mi
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- Muscatinecity, 7 mi
- Kent Estatescommunity, 7 mi
- Blue Grasscity, 10 mi
- Buffalocity, 10 mi
- Stocktoncity, 11 mi
- Durantcity, 12 mi
- Fruitlandcity, 12 mi
- Wiltoncity, 12 mi
- Moscowcommunity, 13 mi
- Walcottcity, 13 mi