Citizen station FW1481FW1481
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/1,136 ft/31 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Backbone State Park, Iowa
State Park in Delaware County, Iowa54°
74°/51°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Light breeze 5 mph SSE
Now. Backbone State Park is 54° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 53° by 7 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. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 76°, and the coolest Thursday, near 67°. Rain is possible Monday (31%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:47 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 31 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
54Air quality
78%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
54feels54
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7451
14mph
Wed
Oct 7
7452
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
6748
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
6945
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
7653
14mph
Sun
Oct 11
7659
overcast
Mon
Oct 12
6956
31%
54°
74°51°
74°52°
67°48°
69°45°
76°53°
76°59°
69°56°
As of 12:00 AM in Backbone State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Backbone State Park
Index 54, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 45 miles off.
54Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)54Moderate-
- Ozone-29 ppb24.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
GoodModerate
- 43YesterdayOct 5
- 36TodayOct 6
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Backbone State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Backbone State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.74 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,105 ft
- County
- Delaware County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.6364° N
- Longitude
- 91.5375° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Backbone State Park, 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
Manchester (US 20)RMNI4
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/1,014 ft/91 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
OelweinOLZ
At an airfield/22.5 mi away/1,076 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Harpers Ferry 5WSW - Yellow River Park RAWSYSPI4
A remote fire weather station/40.0 mi away/748 ft/357 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dundee 1.4 NNEIA-DW-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/1,019 ft/86 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Strawberry PointSPTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/1,204 ft/99 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 Strawberry Point (SPTI4), 3.4 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Backbone State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Strawberry Pointcity, 3 mi
- Dundeecity, 4 mi
- Lamontcity, 6 mi
- Edgewoodcity, 7 mi
- Auroracity, 10 mi
- Arlingtoncity, 10 mi
- Greeleycity, 10 mi
- Manchestercity, 11 mi
- Masonvillecity, 11 mi
- Volgacity, 12 mi
- Stanleycity, 14 mi
- Delawarecity, 15 mi