Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/4.8 mi away/938 ft/154 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lizard Creek State Recreation Area, Iowa
State Recreation Area in Webster 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°
57°/50°
Overcast·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lizard Creek State Recreation Area until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lizard Creek State Recreation Area is 47° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 1 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 day is 11 hours 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
78%Humidity
89%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
47feels42
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
5750
100%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5042
12%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6441
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6544
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7045
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7452
13%
47°
57°50°
50°42°
57°31°
64°41°
65°44°
70°45°
74°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Lizard Creek State Recreation Area, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Lizard Creek State Recreation Area
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 72 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone17Good-
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 14
- ModerateTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lizard Creek State Recreation Area
1.20 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
- 1.20in
- Last 3 days
- 1.20in
Visibility
How far you can see at Lizard Creek State Recreation Area, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.15 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,092 ft
- County
- Webster County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.4804° N
- Longitude
- 94.2660° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Lizard Creek State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/1,111 ft/19 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fort DodgeFOD
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/1,165 ft/73 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Moorland 0.2 WNWIA-WB-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/1,138 ft/46 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Dodge 5 NNWWMTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/988 ft/104 ft below 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 Fort Dodge 5 NNW (WMTI4), 3.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:27. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Lizard Creek State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.