Anamosa (US 151)RCRI4
Beside a road/3.5 mi away/931 ft/75 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Wapsipinicon State Park, Iowa
State Park in Jones County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast 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 16 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Wapsipinicon State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wapsipinicon State Park is 51° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 4 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 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 south-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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
7Air quality
93%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
51feels51
16mph
Today
Oct 15
6152
100%
14mph
Fri
Oct 16
5442
35%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6437
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6641
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7347
overcast
51°
61°52°
54°42°
57°30°
64°37°
66°41°
70°43°
73°47°
As of 10:00 PM in Wapsipinicon State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Wapsipinicon State Park
Index 7, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 34 miles off.
7Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good22.6 mi
- Ozone-17 ppb17.8 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb22.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- 38TodayOct 15
- 25FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wapsipinicon State Park
0.25 in in the last 24 hours, 0.27 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.25in
- Last 3 days
- 0.27in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 93%
Visibility
How far you can see at Wapsipinicon State Park, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.66 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 856 ft
- County
- Jones County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.0974° N
- Longitude
- 91.2773° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Wapsipinicon State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station DW2485DW2485
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/790 ft/66 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/10.4 mi away/835 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.6 mi away/740 ft/116 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Anamosa 0.6 ESEIA-JN-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/817 ft/39 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Anamosa 3SSWAMOI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/872 ft/16 ft above 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 Anamosa 3SSW (AMOI4), 1.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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