Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/1,229 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pilot Knob State Park, Iowa
State Park in Hancock County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29-32 expected and widespread frost. * WHERE...Much of central Iowa. * 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.
34°
55°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 34°·Calm 0 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Pilot Knob State Park until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pilot Knob State Park is 34° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 42% lit, and sets at 11:17 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 10 hours 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
92%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
34feels34
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5530
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6137
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6338
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6642
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7047
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7350
overcast
Fri
Oct 23
7353
12mph
34°
55°30°
61°37°
63°38°
66°42°
70°47°
73°50°
73°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Pilot Knob State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Pilot Knob State Park
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 74 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Ozone14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 16
- 30TodayOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pilot Knob State Park
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.97 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.97in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 2%
Visibility
How far you can see at Pilot Knob State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.21 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,313 ft
- County
- Hancock County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.2524° N
- Longitude
- 93.5578° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Pilot Knob State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW5290EW5290
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/1,173 ft/140 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/9.2 mi away/1,270 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Forest City 2 NNEFSCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.3 mi away/1,263 ft/50 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Forest City 0.7 NWIA-WN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,259 ft/54 ft below 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 Pilot Knob State Park
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- Lelandcity, 7 mi
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