GrangerRGAI4
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/863 ft/103 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Creek State Park, Iowa
State Park in Polk County, Iowa54°
78°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Light breeze 7 mph S
Now. Big Creek State Park is 54° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 3 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 (32%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:57 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
82%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
54feels54
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7853
13mph
Wed
Oct 7
7756
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
7051
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7451
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
7960
14mph
Sun
Oct 11
7963
overcast
Mon
Oct 12
7160
32%
54°
78°53°
77°56°
70°51°
74°51°
79°60°
79°63°
71°60°
As of 3:00 AM in Big Creek State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Big Creek State Park
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 18 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good13.7 mi
- Ozone28Good25 ppb4.4 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 Big Creek State Park
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 Big Creek State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 4.01 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 966 ft
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.7905° N
- Longitude
- 93.7316° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Big Creek 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 now6 instruments
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/6.4 mi away/896 ft/70 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0850GW0850
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/944 ft/22 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AnkenyIKV
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/888 ft/78 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/14.5 mi away/1,073 ft/107 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/28.1 mi away/903 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Polk City 1.0 NIA-PK-115
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/876 ft/90 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/932 ft/34 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 NWS Des Moines (DMX), 3.8 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Big Creek State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.