Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/1.1 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Principal Park, Iowa
Stadium in Polk County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of 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°/56°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 51°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Principal Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. Principal Park is 51° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
72%Humidity
64%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
51feels51
14mph
Today
Oct 15
6156
98%
19mph
Fri
Oct 16
5244
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6746
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7147
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7552
overcast
51°
61°56°
52°44°
58°33°
65°41°
67°46°
71°47°
75°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Principal Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Principal Park
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 4 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone17Good21 ppb2 mi
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 14
- ModerateTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Principal Park
0.45 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.45in
- Last 3 days
- 0.45in
Visibility
How far you can see at Principal Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Stadium
- Home team
- Iowa Cubs
- League
- Pacific Coast League
- Level
- Professional
- Seats
- 11,500
- Roof
- Open air
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.5802° N
- Longitude
- 93.6160° W
Stadium map
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Principal 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 now6 instruments
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW0005CW0005
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/960 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/9.3 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/17.2 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/29.5 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Des Moines 0.9 NIA-PK-142
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/809 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Des Moines WavelandWGCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/860 ft/- ft from 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 Des Moines Waveland (WGCI4), 2.6 miles from here, read 10 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Principal Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Des Moinescity, 1 mi
- Windsor Heightscity, 5 mi
- Pleasant Hillcity, 6 mi
- Norwalkcity, 7 mi
- Saylorvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Urbandalecity, 8 mi
- West Des Moinescity, 8 mi
- Carlislecity, 9 mi
- Altoonacity, 9 mi
- Johnstoncity, 9 mi
- Cummingcity, 9 mi
- Clivecity, 10 mi
Stadiums near Principal Park
- Drake Stadium3 mi
- Jack Trice Stadium30 mi
- Veterans Memorial Stadium103 mi
- Kinnick Stadium107 mi