At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/1,083 ft/280 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Preparation Canyon State Park, Iowa
State Park in Monona County, Iowa58°
79°/55°
Clear·
Feels like 58°·Gentle breeze 11 mph S
Now. Preparation Canyon State Park is 58° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 81°, and the coolest Monday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:06 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
28Air quality
72%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
58feels58
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7955
clear day
Wed
Oct 7
7657
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
7153
14%
Fri
Oct 9
7654
23%
Sat
Oct 10
8163
15mph
Sun
Oct 11
7764
12mph
Mon
Oct 12
6958
28%
58°
79°55°
76°57°
71°53°
76°54°
81°63°
77°64°
69°58°
As of 5:00 AM in Preparation Canyon State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Preparation Canyon State Park
Index 28, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 5 miles off.
28Good
- Ozone28Good35 ppb4.7 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 40, good.
GoodModerate
- 40YesterdayOct 5
- 31TodayOct 6
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Preparation Canyon State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 4 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 Preparation Canyon State Park, the next 45 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
- 0.54 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 1,363 ft
- County
- Monona County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.9001° N
- Longitude
- 95.9199° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Preparation Canyon State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Little Sioux - I29RLSI4
Beside a road/8.8 mi away/1,030 ft/333 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
DenisonDNS
At an airfield/28.3 mi away/1,250 ft/113 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WX4TAZWX4TAZ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.1 mi away/1,219 ft/144 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/37.4 mi away/1,119 ft/244 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Little Sioux 2 NWLSXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.6 mi away/1,030 ft/333 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Pisgah 4.7 SEIA-HR-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/1,309 ft/54 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Little Sioux 2 NW (LSXI4), 7.6 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 Preparation Canyon State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.