HarlanHNR
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/1,194 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie Rose State Park, Iowa
State Park in Shelby County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
44°
51°/40°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Prairie Rose State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Prairie Rose State Park is 44° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
76%Humidity
27%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
44feels37
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5140
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7551
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7555
18%
44°
51°40°
57°29°
64°38°
66°43°
71°44°
75°51°
75°55°
As of 12:00 AM in Prairie Rose State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Prairie Rose State Park
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 40 miles off.
20Good
- Ozone20Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 17, good.
GoodModerate
- 17YesterdayOct 15
- 24TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Prairie Rose State Park
1.05 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
- 1.05in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
Visibility
How far you can see at Prairie Rose State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.03 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,286 ft
- County
- Shelby County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.6067° N
- Longitude
- 95.2233° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Prairie Rose State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Avoca (I-80)RAVI4
Beside a road/8.3 mi away/1,237 ft/49 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.9 mi away/1,322 ft/36 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.8 mi away/1,153 ft/133 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kirkman 1.0 SEIA-SH-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/1,284 ft/2 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AudubonAUDI4
At a cooperative observer's station/16.8 mi away/1,290 ft/4 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 Prairie Rose State Park
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