Elk Rock State Park, Iowa
State Park in Marion County, IowaNow. Elk Rock State Park is 55° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 6 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°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:55 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 33 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Elk Rock State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Elk Rock State Park
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 32 miles off.
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Ozone27Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
- 37YesterdayOct 5
- GoodTodayOct 6
- GoodWedOct 7
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elk Rock State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 1 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 Elk Rock State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 1.43 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 775 ft
- County
- Marion County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.4070° N
- Longitude
- 93.0738° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Elk Rock State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
PellaPEA
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/869 ft/94 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
PleasantvilleRPEI4
Beside a road/10.5 mi away/893 ft/118 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7443GW7443
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/937 ft/162 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/15.0 mi away/903 ft/128 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Knoxville 0.5 ENEIA-MA-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/879 ft/104 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pella 1 SPEAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/761 ft/14 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 Pella 1 S (PEAI4), 9.1 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 Elk Rock State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Knoxvillecity, 6 mi
- Monroecity, 8 mi
- Pellacity, 8 mi
- Harveycity, 10 mi
- Pleasantvillecity, 10 mi
- Reasnorcity, 12 mi
- Swancity, 13 mi
- Melcher-Dallascity, 15 mi
- Leightoncity, 16 mi
- Prairie Citycity, 16 mi
- Runnellscity, 17 mi
- Sandyvillecity, 17 mi