Estherville - Hwy 9RETI4
Beside a road/3.1 mi away/1,277 ft/161 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fort Defiance State Park, Iowa
State Park in Emmet County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * 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.
45°
50°/38°
Overcast·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Fort Defiance State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Fort Defiance State Park is 45° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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.
0UV Low
21Air quality
76%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
45feels38
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5038
31%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7042
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7449
16%
Thu
Oct 22
7353
17%
45°
50°38°
57°29°
64°38°
65°41°
70°42°
74°49°
73°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Fort Defiance State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Fort Defiance State Park
Index 21, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 71 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)21Good20.2 mi
- Ozone14Good17 ppb20.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Defiance State Park
0.81 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.81in
- Last 3 days
- 0.81in
Visibility
How far you can see at Fort Defiance State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.39 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,438 ft
- County
- Emmet County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.3904° N
- Longitude
- 94.8570° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Defiance State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
EsthervilleEST
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/1,316 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7399FW7399
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/1,449 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Estherville 0.3 SSWIA-EM-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,280 ft/158 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Estherville 4 EESTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/1,335 ft/103 ft below 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
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Near Fort Defiance State Park
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