At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/1,083 ft/280 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Preparation Canyon State Park, Iowa
State Park in Monona County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * WHEN...From late tonight 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.
43°
52°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 36°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Preparation Canyon State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Preparation Canyon State Park is 43° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 4 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:32 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
22Air quality
66%Humidity
91%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
43feels36
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5240
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5829
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6538
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7245
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7652
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7656
18%
43°
52°40°
58°29°
65°38°
66°43°
72°45°
76°52°
76°56°
As of 2:00 AM in Preparation Canyon State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Preparation Canyon State Park
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 5 miles off.
22Good
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone.
GoodModerate
- 24TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Preparation Canyon State Park
0.96 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.96in
- Last 3 days
- 0.96in
Visibility
How far you can see at Preparation Canyon State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.54 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,363 ft
- County
- Monona County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.9001° N
- Longitude
- 95.9199° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Preparation Canyon State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Little Sioux - I29RLSI4
Beside a road/8.8 mi away/1,030 ft/333 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
DenisonDNS
At an airfield/28.3 mi away/1,250 ft/113 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WX4TAZWX4TAZ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.1 mi away/1,219 ft/144 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/37.4 mi away/1,119 ft/244 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Little Sioux 2 NWLSXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/1,030 ft/333 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Pisgah 4.7 SEIA-HR-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/1,309 ft/54 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Little Sioux 2 NW (LSXI4), 7.6 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Preparation Canyon State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.