Rockwell CityRRWI4
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/1,286 ft/71 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Twin Lakes State Park, Iowa
State Park in Calhoun 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.
45°
51°/41°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 16 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Twin Lakes State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Twin Lakes State Park is 45° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 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 Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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.
0UV Low
-Air quality
76%Humidity
68%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
45feels38
16mph
Today
Oct 16
5141
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5731
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6441
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6545
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7145
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7452
14%
Thu
Oct 22
7456
18%
45°
51°41°
57°31°
64°41°
65°45°
71°45°
74°52°
74°56°
As of 2:00 AM in Twin Lakes State Park, Iowa.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Twin Lakes State Park
1.05 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
- 1.05in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
Visibility
How far you can see at Twin Lakes State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 32,300 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 1,215 ft
- County
- Calhoun County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.4792° N
- Longitude
- 94.6373° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Twin Lakes State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Fort DodgeFOD
At an airfield/22.6 mi away/1,165 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.6 mi away/1,111 ft/104 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rockwell City 3.6 NWIA-CH-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.4 mi away/1,234 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rockwell CityRKWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.6 mi away/1,191 ft/24 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Rockwell City (RKWI4), 5.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:06. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Twin Lakes State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.