GrinnellRGII4
Beside a road/5.1 mi away/868 ft/102 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rock Creek State Park, Iowa
State Park in Jasper County, Iowa52°
76°/51°
Clear·
Feels like 52°·Light breeze 7 mph S
Now. Rock Creek State Park is 52° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° 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 78°, and the coolest Thursday, near 69°. Rain is possible Monday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:45 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:54 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.
0UV Low
27Air quality
85%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
52feels52
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7651
14mph
Wed
Oct 7
7655
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
6950
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7249
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
7857
13mph
Sun
Oct 11
7761
overcast
Mon
Oct 12
7158
30%
52°
76°51°
76°55°
69°50°
72°49°
78°57°
77°61°
71°58°
As of 2:00 AM in Rock Creek State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Rock Creek State Park
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 44 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)26Good-
- Ozone27Good-
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 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rock Creek 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 Rock Creek 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
- 2.76 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 970 ft
- County
- Jasper County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.7353° N
- Longitude
- 92.8630° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Rock Creek State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
GrinnellGGI
At an airfield/6.9 mi away/1,007 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.6 mi away/1,012 ft/42 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/23.5 mi away/892 ft/78 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/25.1 mi away/903 ft/67 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grinnell 3 SWGRII4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.8 mi away/974 ft/4 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Grinnell 0.4 WIA-PW-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/1,001 ft/31 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Rock Creek State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.