Creston (US 34)RCEI4
Beside a road/6.6 mi away/1,273 ft/level with here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Green Valley State Park, Iowa
State Park in Union 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.
51°
61°/55°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 51°·Moderate breeze 18 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Green Valley State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 61° today.
Now. Green Valley State Park is 51° and partly cloudy at 9 PM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
76%Humidity
38%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
51feels51
18mph
Today
Oct 15
6155
88%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5142
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6645
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7147
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7553
overcast
51°
61°55°
51°42°
57°31°
64°38°
66°45°
71°47°
75°53°
As of 9:00 PM in Green Valley State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Green Valley State Park
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 36 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Ozone13Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
- 44TodayOct 15
- 21FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Green Valley State Park
0.32 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.32in
- Last 3 days
- 0.32in
Visibility
How far you can see at Green Valley State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.84 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,273 ft
- County
- Union County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.1225° N
- Longitude
- 94.3888° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Green Valley State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
CrestonCSQ
At an airfield/7.3 mi away/1,290 ft/17 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.4 mi away/1,153 ft/120 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Creston 0.8 NWIA-UN-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/1,287 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Creston 2 SWCRTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/1,289 ft/16 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 Creston 2 SW (CRTI4), 5.9 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Green Valley State Park
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