Beside a road/4.4 mi away/820 ft/133 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Palisades-Kepler State Park, Iowa
State Park in Linn County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast 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.
52°
64°/54°
Overcast·
Feels like 52°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Palisades-Kepler 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 55° after 64° today.
Now. Palisades-Kepler State Park is 52° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 4 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 55°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
7Air quality
87%Humidity
95%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
52feels52
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6454
99%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5544
37%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6539
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6744
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7145
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
overcast
52°
64°54°
55°44°
58°32°
65°39°
67°44°
71°45°
74°50°
As of 10:00 PM in Palisades-Kepler State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Palisades-Kepler State Park
Index 7, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 18 miles off.
7Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good9.9 mi
- Ozone-18 ppb9.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb9.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- 38TodayOct 15
- 25FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palisades-Kepler State Park
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.24in
- Last 3 days
- 0.26in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 92%
Visibility
How far you can see at Palisades-Kepler State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.57 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 687 ft
- County
- Linn County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.9181° N
- Longitude
- 91.5080° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Palisades-Kepler State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/854 ft/167 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cedar RapidsCID
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/869 ft/182 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/740 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ely 2.0 NIA-LN-61
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/772 ft/85 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cedar Rapids No 1CRPI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/856 ft/169 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 Cedar Rapids No 1 (CRPI4), 8.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 17:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Palisades-Kepler State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bertramcity, 3 mi
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- Elycity, 5 mi
- Lisboncity, 6 mi
- Soloncity, 8 mi
- Shueyvillecity, 9 mi
- Cedar Rapidscity, 9 mi
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- Springvillecity, 10 mi
- Martellecity, 10 mi
- Swishercity, 11 mi
- Hiawathacity, 12 mi