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Beside a road/3.1 mi away/1,277 ft/161 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fort Defiance State Park, Iowa
State Park in Emmet County, Iowa55°
79°/56°
Clear·
Feels like 55°·Gentle breeze 9 mph SSW
Now. Fort Defiance State Park is 55° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 9 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° by 6 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 80°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. Rain is possible Monday (33%). The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4 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
32Air quality
72%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
55feels55
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7956
15mph
Wed
Oct 7
7354
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
6749
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7249
12mph
Sat
Oct 10
8060
20mph
Sun
Oct 11
7461
11%
15mph
Mon
Oct 12
6354
33%
12mph
55°
79°56°
73°54°
67°49°
72°49°
80°60°
74°61°
63°54°
As of 6:00 AM in Fort Defiance State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Fort Defiance State Park
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 71 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good20.2 mi
- Ozone32Good32 ppb20.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Thu Oct 8, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 5
- 33TodayOct 6
- GoodWedOct 7
- GoodThuOct 8
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Defiance State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 5 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 Fort Defiance State Park, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Thu 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.39 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,438 ft
- County
- Emmet County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 43.3904° N
- Longitude
- 94.8570° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fort Defiance State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
EsthervilleEST
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/1,316 ft/122 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7399FW7399
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/1,449 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Estherville 0.3 SSWIA-EM-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/1,280 ft/158 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Estherville 4 EESTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/1,335 ft/103 ft below 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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Near Fort Defiance State Park
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