Cecil M. Harden Lake At Ferndale03340870
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Raccoon State Recreation Area, Indiana
State Recreation Area in Parke County, Indiana* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 34 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of central, north central, south central, southeast, southwest, and west central Indiana. * WHEN...Until 9 AM EDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
37°
68°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Light air 2 mph SSE
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Raccoon State Recreation Area until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Raccoon State Recreation Area is 37° and clear at 8 AM. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 68° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 54): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. Highs stay close to 74° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:05 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 1:05 AM after midnight. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
54Air quality
92%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
37feels37
now, clear
Today
Oct 18
6833
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7238
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7340
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7444
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7544
clear day
Fri
Oct 23
7346
clear day
Sat
Oct 24
7345
mostly clear day
37°
68°33°
72°38°
73°40°
74°44°
75°44°
73°46°
73°45°
As of 8:00 AM in Raccoon State Recreation Area, Indiana.
Air quality
The air at Raccoon State Recreation Area
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Terre Haute (IN), 26 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)54Moderate-
- Ozone3Good-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 17
- ModerateTodayOct 18
- ModerateMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Tue 2 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Raccoon State Recreation Area
None in the last 24 hours; 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.26in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Raccoon State Recreation Area, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Tue 2 AM, lowest 9 miles Sun 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 0.93 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 728 ft
- County
- Parke County
- State
- Indiana
- Latitude
- 39.7584° N
- Longitude
- 87.0723° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Raccoon State Recreation Area, 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
Citizen station FW3934FW3934
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.6 mi away/742 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
GreencastleGPC
At an airfield/16.1 mi away/840 ft/112 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
CloverdaleIN011
Beside a road/21.2 mi away/832 ft/104 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rockville 3.6 ENEIN-PR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/702 ft/26 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RockvilleROKI3
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/692 ft/36 ft below 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 Rockville (ROKI3), 8.4 miles from here, read 17 Oct, 18:10. measured daily
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Near Raccoon State Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Rockvilletown, 8 mi
- Wavelandtown, 8 mi
- Marshalltown, 9 mi
- Bridgetoncommunity, 10 mi
- Bloomingdaletown, 11 mi
- Carbontown, 11 mi
- Meccatown, 14 mi
- Bainbridgetown, 14 mi
- Greencastlecity, 14 mi