FairfieldFFL
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/795 ft/89 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lake Darling State Park, Iowa
State Park in Washington 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.
46°
54°/45°
Overcast·
Feels like 40°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lake Darling State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Darling State Park is 46° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
86%Humidity
92%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
46feels40
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5445
23%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5933
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6637
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6941
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7146
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7449
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7654
10%
46°
54°45°
59°33°
66°37°
69°41°
71°46°
74°49°
76°54°
As of 7:00 AM in Lake Darling State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Lake Darling State Park
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 36 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)25Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 25TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake Darling State Park
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.17 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 0.17in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 24%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake Darling State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.19 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 706 ft
- County
- Washington County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.2062° N
- Longitude
- 91.9044° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Darling State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW2804GW2804
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.9 mi away/751 ft/45 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
OldsROUI4
Beside a road/19.4 mi away/723 ft/17 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mount Pleasant 1 SSW [CCOOP]MPZI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.6 mi away/719 ft/13 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Washington 6.0 WSWIA-WS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/738 ft/32 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FairfieldFRFI4
At a cooperative observer's station/12.2 mi away/774 ft/68 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 Fairfield (FRFI4), 12.2 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Lake Darling State Park
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