Citizen station FW1255FW1255
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.3 mi away/1,451 ft/11 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Trappers Bay State Park, Iowa
State Park in Dickinson County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * 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°
55°/42°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Trappers Bay State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Trappers Bay State Park is 45° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
75%Humidity
76%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
45feels39
14mph
Today
Oct 15
5542
92%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5038
25%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
19mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7042
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
13%
45°
55°42°
50°38°
57°29°
65°39°
65°41°
70°42°
74°50°
As of 9:00 PM in Trappers Bay State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Trappers Bay State Park
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 69 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good-
- Ozone19Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)20Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Trappers Bay State Park
0.70 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.70in
- Last 3 days
- 0.70in
Visibility
How far you can see at Trappers Bay State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2,090,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,462 ft
- County
- Dickinson County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.4538° N
- Longitude
- 95.3361° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Trappers Bay State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
measured daily2 instruments
Lake Park 0.2 NIA-DK-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/1,467 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lake ParkLKPI4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.7 mi away/1,460 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Trappers Bay State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Lake Parkcity, 1 mi
- Harriscity, 5 mi
- Wahpetoncity, 10 mi
- Ocheyedancity, 10 mi
- Okobojicity, 11 mi
- West Okobojicity, 12 mi
- Orleanscity, 12 mi
- Spirit Lakecity, 12 mi
- Arnolds Parkcity, 12 mi
- Milfordcity, 13 mi
- Fostoriacity, 17 mi
- Melvincity, 18 mi