Boone MuniBNW
At an airfield/4.2 mi away/1,146 ft/271 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ledges State Park, Iowa
State Park in Boone 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°
52°/44°
Overcast·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ledges State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ledges State Park is 47° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 Wednesday, near 75°, 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 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
81%Humidity
92%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
47feels41
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5244
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6646
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7147
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7553
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7557
19%
47°
52°44°
58°33°
65°41°
66°46°
71°47°
75°53°
75°57°
As of 1:00 AM in Ledges State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Ledges State Park
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 34 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone16Good16 ppb14.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ledges State Park
1.35 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.35in
- Last 3 days
- 1.35in
Visibility
How far you can see at Ledges State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.83 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 875 ft
- County
- Boone County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.9969° N
- Longitude
- 93.8927° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Ledges State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.3 mi away/1,073 ft/198 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/8.9 mi away/1,073 ft/198 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.2 mi away/973 ft/98 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/16.8 mi away/1,027 ft/152 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Madrid 5.8 NNWIA-BN-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/1,055 ft/180 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BooneBNWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.2 mi away/915 ft/40 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 Ledges State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.