Carroll (US 30)RCAI4
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/1,276 ft/28 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Swan Lake State Park, Iowa
State Park in Carroll 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.
51°
53°/41°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 10 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Swan Lake State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Swan Lake State Park is 51° and mostly cloudy at 4 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 42° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° 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 Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
26Air quality
54%Humidity
73%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
51feels51
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5341
10%
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6440
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6945
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7350
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7554
overcast
51°
53°41°
57°32°
64°40°
65°41°
69°45°
73°50°
75°54°
As of 4:00 PM in Swan Lake State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Swan Lake State Park
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 57 miles off.
26Good
- Ozone26Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 15
- 21TodayOct 16
- 31SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Swan Lake State Park
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.91 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.91in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 2%
Visibility
How far you can see at Swan Lake State Park, the next 40 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.79 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,304 ft
- County
- Carroll County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.0375° N
- Longitude
- 94.8594° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Swan Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
CarrollCIN
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/1,198 ft/106 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.8 mi away/1,322 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CarrollCINI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/1,257 ft/47 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Carroll 0.4 NIA-CR-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/1,288 ft/16 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 Carroll (CINI4), 2.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Swan Lake State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.