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At an airfield/9.7 mi away/974 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Union Grove State Park, Iowa
State Park in Tama County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * 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.
51°
61°/52°
Overcast·
Feels like 51°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Union Grove State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. Union Grove State Park is 51° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 1 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
93%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
51feels51
14mph
Today
Oct 15
6152
99%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5241
34%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7044
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7349
overcast
51°
61°52°
52°41°
57°30°
64°38°
66°43°
70°44°
73°49°
As of 9:00 PM in Union Grove State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Union Grove State Park
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 31 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- 39TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Union Grove State Park
0.78 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
- 0.78in
- Last 3 days
- 0.78in
Visibility
How far you can see at Union Grove State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.49 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 956 ft
- County
- Tama County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.1236° N
- Longitude
- 92.7275° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Union Grove State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Marshalltown (US 30)RMTI4
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/955 ft/1 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.4 mi away/1,012 ft/56 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
GarwinGRWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/965 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Gladbrook 2.0 NEIA-TM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/1,043 ft/87 ft above 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 Union Grove State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.