BedfordRBFI4
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/1,171 ft/24 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lake of Three Fires State Park, Iowa
State Park in Taylor 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.
47°
62°/54°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lake of Three Fires State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 62° today.
Now. Lake of Three Fires State Park is 47° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 26 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
68%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
47feels42
13mph
Today
Oct 15
6254
89%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5341
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6637
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6945
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7446
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7753
overcast
47°
62°54°
53°41°
59°30°
66°37°
69°45°
74°46°
77°53°
As of 11:00 PM in Lake of Three Fires State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Lake of Three Fires State Park
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 25 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Ozone18Good-
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 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lake of Three Fires State Park
0.25 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.25in
- Last 3 days
- 0.25in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lake of Three Fires State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,147 ft
- County
- Taylor County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 40.7230° N
- Longitude
- 94.6862° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Lake of Three Fires State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Nodaway River at Clarinda06817000
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.2 mi away/956 ft/191 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ClarindaICL
At an airfield/17.6 mi away/978 ft/169 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bedford 0.5 NWIA-TY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/1,218 ft/71 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BlocktonBLKI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/1,155 ft/8 ft above 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
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Lake of Three Fires State Park
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