Beside a road/2.8 mi away/1,060 ft/136 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Viking Lake State Park, Iowa
State Park in Montgomery County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * WHEN...From late tonight 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
44°
53°/41°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Viking Lake State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Viking Lake State Park is 44° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 6 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
66%Humidity
74%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
44feels39
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5341
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5929
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6637
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6844
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7345
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7752
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7756
12%
44°
53°41°
59°29°
66°37°
68°44°
73°45°
77°52°
77°56°
As of 2:00 AM in Viking Lake State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Viking Lake State Park
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 1 mile off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good0.7 mi
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 21TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Viking Lake State Park
0.51 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
- 0.51in
- Last 3 days
- 0.51in
Visibility
How far you can see at Viking Lake State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.52 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,196 ft
- County
- Montgomery County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 40.9817° N
- Longitude
- 95.0379° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Viking Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Red OakRDK
At an airfield/11.9 mi away/1,040 ft/156 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Nodaway River at Clarinda06817000
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.5 mi away/956 ft/240 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.7 mi away/1,153 ft/43 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stanton 1.1 SWIA-MY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,175 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Red OakROKI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/1,073 ft/123 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Viking Lake State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.