SaratogaSRGI4
Beside a road/10.8 mi away/1,357 ft/217 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pioneer State Recreation Area, Iowa
State Recreation Area in Mitchell County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest into west central Wisconsin. * 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.
45°
51°/40°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pioneer State Recreation Area until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pioneer State Recreation Area is 45° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 1 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
92%Humidity
34%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
45feels39
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5140
45%
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5630
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6340
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6443
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6944
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7249
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7254
18%
45°
51°40°
56°30°
63°40°
64°43°
69°44°
72°49°
72°54°
As of 12:00 AM in Pioneer State Recreation Area, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Pioneer State Recreation Area
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 47 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone17Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pioneer State Recreation Area
0.99 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.99in
- Last 3 days
- 0.99in
Visibility
How far you can see at Pioneer State Recreation Area, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 591,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,140 ft
- County
- Mitchell County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.3416° N
- Longitude
- 92.6818° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Pioneer State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Charles CityCCY
At an airfield/18.9 mi away/1,116 ft/24 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1775GW1775
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.2 mi away/1,010 ft/130 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Osage 4.7 EIA-MT-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/1,169 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Osage 1WOSAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.7 mi away/1,165 ft/25 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Pioneer State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Little Cedarcommunity, 3 mi
- New Havencommunity, 5 mi
- Ricevillecity, 6 mi
- Osagecity, 8 mi
- McIntirecity, 8 mi
- Stacyvillecity, 8 mi
- Meyercommunity, 8 mi
- Orchardcity, 9 mi
- Mitchellcity, 9 mi
- St. Ansgarcity, 12 mi
- Toetervillecommunity, 13 mi
- Colwellcity, 14 mi