Beside a road/17.7 mi away/955 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pammel State Park, Iowa
State Park in Madison 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.
53°
63°/56°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pammel State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 63° today.
Now. Pammel State Park is 53° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 3 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. 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, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
86%Humidity
69%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
53feels53
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6356
93%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5244
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6640
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6846
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7247
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7653
overcast
53°
63°56°
52°44°
59°32°
66°40°
68°46°
72°47°
76°53°
As of 9:00 PM in Pammel State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Pammel State Park
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 27 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone12Good-
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 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pammel State Park
0.46 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.46in
- Last 3 days
- 0.46in
Visibility
How far you can see at Pammel State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.47 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 939 ft
- County
- Madison County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.2888° N
- Longitude
- 94.0619° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Pammel State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station CW7529CW7529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.7 mi away/947 ft/8 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CrestonCSQ
At an airfield/24.3 mi away/1,290 ft/351 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/34.5 mi away/896 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Winterset 2 NNWWTRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/1,093 ft/154 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winterset 4.7 SEIA-MD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/1,102 ft/163 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Pammel State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.