HawkeyeHKYI4
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/1,074 ft/21 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Volga River State Recreation Area, Iowa
State Recreation Area in Fayette County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest into west central Wisconsin. * 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.
47°
52°/40°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Volga River State Recreation Area until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Volga River State Recreation Area is 47° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
87%Humidity
72%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
47feels42
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5240
62%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5630
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6339
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6843
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7147
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7253
18%
47°
52°40°
56°30°
63°39°
65°42°
68°43°
71°47°
72°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Volga River State Recreation Area, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Volga River State Recreation Area
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 43 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Volga River State Recreation Area
1.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Volga River State Recreation Area, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 8.49 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,053 ft
- County
- Fayette County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.8806° N
- Longitude
- 91.7390° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Volga River State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station FW1481FW1481
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.0 mi away/1,136 ft/83 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
OelweinOLZ
At an airfield/18.2 mi away/1,076 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Harpers Ferry 5WSW - Yellow River Park RAWSYSPI4
A remote fire weather station/32.2 mi away/748 ft/305 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fayette 3NNWFYTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/1,122 ft/69 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Elkader 6.8 WSWIA-CT-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.9 mi away/833 ft/220 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 Fayette 3NNW (FYTI4), 4.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Volga River State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.