LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/6.9 mi away/1,270 ft/19 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rice Lake State Park, Iowa
State Park in Winnebago County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * 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.
44°
51°/38°
Overcast·
Feels like 37°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rice Lake State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rice Lake State Park is 44° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:16 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
18Air quality
85%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
44feels37
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5138
26%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5830
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6540
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6943
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7148
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7253
12%
44°
51°38°
58°30°
64°38°
65°40°
69°43°
71°48°
72°53°
As of 3:00 AM in Rice Lake State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Rice Lake State Park
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 67 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rice Lake State Park
1.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.15in
- Last 3 days
- 1.15in
Visibility
How far you can see at Rice Lake State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 10 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1,620,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,251 ft
- County
- Winnebago County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.3867° N
- Longitude
- 93.5023° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Rice Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station EW5290EW5290
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/1,173 ft/78 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/1,229 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake MillsLMLI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/1,237 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hanlontown 1.4 NNEIA-WT-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,223 ft/28 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 Rice Lake State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Lake Millscity, 3 mi
- Joicecity, 3 mi
- Lelandcity, 7 mi
- Scarvillecity, 8 mi
- Fertilecity, 9 mi
- Hanlontowncity, 10 mi
- Forest Citycity, 11 mi
- Thompsoncity, 14 mi
- Northwoodcity, 15 mi
- Kensettcity, 15 mi
- Millercommunity, 15 mi
- Manlycity, 17 mi