Sloan I-29RSOI4
Beside a road/9.5 mi away/1,053 ft/8 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lewis and Clark State Park, Iowa
State Park in Monona County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
45°
53°/40°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 40°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lewis and Clark State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lewis and Clark State Park is 45° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:33 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
63%Humidity
79%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
45feels40
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5340
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5929
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6639
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7344
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7752
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7755
18%
45°
53°40°
59°29°
66°39°
67°43°
73°44°
77°52°
77°55°
As of 12:00 AM in Lewis and Clark State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Lewis and Clark State Park
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, WTN1 (NE), 18 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Ozone-22 ppb19 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)20Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lewis and Clark State Park
0.76 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
- 0.76in
- Last 3 days
- 0.76in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lewis and Clark State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.76 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,045 ft
- County
- Monona County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.0407° N
- Longitude
- 96.1691° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Lewis and Clark State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/1,083 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sioux CitySUX
At an airfield/26.5 mi away/1,102 ft/57 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2980FW2980
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.5 mi away/1,103 ft/58 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/33.8 mi away/1,119 ft/74 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Blencoe 0.9 NNWIA-MN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/1,044 ft/1 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Holly Springs 1NWHLYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/17.0 mi away/1,066 ft/21 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 Holly Springs 1NW (HLYI4), 17.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Lewis and Clark State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.