Beside a road/15.1 mi away/1,329 ft/97 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Wanata State Park, Iowa
State Park in Clay 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°/45°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wanata State Park until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wanata State Park is 45° and partly cloudy at 10 PM. 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 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
76%Humidity
59%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
45feels39
13mph
Today
Oct 15
5545
98%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5140
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
18mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
16%
45°
55°45°
51°40°
57°29°
65°39°
66°43°
71°44°
74°51°
As of 10:00 PM in Wanata State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Wanata State Park
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 59 miles off.
18Good
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wanata State Park
0.93 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.93in
- Last 3 days
- 0.93in
Visibility
How far you can see at Wanata State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.25 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,232 ft
- County
- Clay County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.9154° N
- Longitude
- 95.3427° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Wanata State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
CherokeeCKP
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/1,226 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7617EW7617
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.2 mi away/1,465 ft/233 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.7 mi away/1,400 ft/168 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/40.0 mi away/1,119 ft/113 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
PetersonPTRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/1,368 ft/136 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sutherland 0.5 NEIA-OB-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/1,412 ft/180 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 Wanata State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Petersoncity, under 1 mi
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- Sutherlandcity, 9 mi
- Sioux Rapidscity, 10 mi
- Rossiecity, 10 mi
- Royalcity, 11 mi
- Calumetcity, 11 mi
- Rembrandtcity, 11 mi
- Larrabeecity, 11 mi
- Greenvillecity, 12 mi
- Aureliacity, 15 mi
- Truesdalecity, 15 mi