Beside a road/4.4 mi away/820 ft/133 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Palisades-Kepler State Park, Iowa
State Park in Linn County, Iowa54°
76°/52°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Light breeze 5 mph S
Now. Palisades-Kepler State Park is 54° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° 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 78°, and the coolest Thursday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:48 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
34Air quality
93%Humidity
11%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
54feels54
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7652
15mph
Wed
Oct 7
7656
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
6952
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7249
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
7857
14mph
Sun
Oct 11
7861
overcast
Mon
Oct 12
7359
28%
12mph
54°
76°52°
76°56°
69°52°
72°49°
78°57°
78°61°
73°59°
As of 2:00 AM in Palisades-Kepler State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Palisades-Kepler State Park
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 18 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good9.9 mi
- Ozone-28 ppb24.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb9.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 32, good.
GoodModerate
- 32YesterdayOct 5
- 36TodayOct 6
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palisades-Kepler 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 Palisades-Kepler State Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.57 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 687 ft
- County
- Linn County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.9181° N
- Longitude
- 91.5080° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Palisades-Kepler State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/854 ft/167 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Cedar RapidsCID
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/869 ft/182 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/740 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ely 2.0 NIA-LN-61
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/772 ft/85 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cedar Rapids No 1CRPI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/856 ft/169 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 Cedar Rapids No 1 (CRPI4), 8.9 miles from here, read 4 Oct, 17:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Palisades-Kepler State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bertramcity, 3 mi
- Mount Vernoncity, 4 mi
- Elycity, 5 mi
- Lisboncity, 6 mi
- Soloncity, 8 mi
- Shueyvillecity, 9 mi
- Cedar Rapidscity, 9 mi
- Marioncity, 9 mi
- Springvillecity, 10 mi
- Martellecity, 10 mi
- Swishercity, 11 mi
- Hiawathacity, 12 mi