Citizen station FW7399FW7399
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.4 mi away/1,449 ft/45 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mini-Wakan State Park, Iowa
State Park in Dickinson County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa and southwest Minnesota. * 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.
43°
50°/39°
Overcast·
Feels like 35°·Moderate breeze 18 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Mini-Wakan State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mini-Wakan State Park is 43° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
87%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
43feels35
15%
18mph
Today
Oct 16
5039
37%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6439
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
14%
Thu
Oct 22
7354
16%
43°
50°39°
57°30°
64°39°
65°41°
70°43°
74°50°
73°54°
As of 3:00 AM in Mini-Wakan State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Mini-Wakan State Park
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 72 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone13Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mini-Wakan State Park
0.69 in in the last 24 hours, 0.72 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.69in
- Last 3 days
- 0.72in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 96%
Visibility
How far you can see at Mini-Wakan State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 597,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,404 ft
- County
- Dickinson County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.4976° N
- Longitude
- 95.1040° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Mini-Wakan State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Estherville - Hwy 9RETI4
Beside a road/16.8 mi away/1,277 ft/127 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
EsthervilleEST
At an airfield/19.1 mi away/1,316 ft/88 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Spirit LakeSPRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 mi away/1,460 ft/56 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Spirit Lake 0.8 EIA-DK-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/1,448 ft/44 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Spirit Lake (SPRI4), 5.2 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 Mini-Wakan State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Orleanscity, 4 mi
- Spirit Lakecity, 6 mi
- Okobojicity, 8 mi
- Superiorcity, 9 mi
- Arnolds Parkcity, 9 mi
- Wahpetoncity, 10 mi
- West Okobojicity, 11 mi
- Lake Parkcity, 11 mi
- Milfordcity, 12 mi
- Terrilcity, 15 mi
- Esthervillecity, 15 mi
- Harriscity, 17 mi