Beside a road/6.1 mi away/955 ft/28 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Badger Creek State Recreation Area, Iowa
State Recreation Area in Madison County, Iowa54°
78°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Light breeze 8 mph S
Now. Badger Creek State Recreation Area is 54° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 79°, and the coolest Thursday, near 70°. Rain is possible Monday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:58 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 32 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
77%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
54feels54
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7853
14mph
Wed
Oct 7
7756
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
7052
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7451
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
7960
14mph
Sun
Oct 11
7863
overcast
Mon
Oct 12
7160
30%
54°
78°53°
77°56°
70°52°
74°51°
79°60°
78°63°
71°60°
As of 3:00 AM in Badger Creek State Recreation Area, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Badger Creek State Recreation Area
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 14 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good17.1 mi
- Ozone28Good32 ppb17.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 5
- GoodTodayOct 6
- GoodWedOct 7
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Badger Creek State Recreation Area
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. 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 Badger Creek State Recreation Area, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Wed 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Recreation Area
- Area
- 1.78 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 927 ft
- County
- Madison County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.4814° N
- Longitude
- 93.9255° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Badger Creek State Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station CW7529CW7529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/947 ft/20 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/965 ft/38 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/19.6 mi away/896 ft/31 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/33.5 mi away/903 ft/24 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/37.4 mi away/1,073 ft/146 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Van Meter 0.2 NNEIA-DL-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/876 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AdelADXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.2 mi away/961 ft/34 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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