Beside a road/2.8 mi away/1,060 ft/136 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Viking Lake State Park is 52° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° 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 82°, and the coolest Thursday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:04 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 4:00 AM in Viking Lake State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 1 mile off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Thu 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Wed 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Viking Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/2.8 mi away/1,060 ft/136 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Red OakRDK
At an airfield/11.9 mi away/1,040 ft/156 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Nodaway River at Clarinda06817000
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.5 mi away/956 ft/240 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.7 mi away/1,153 ft/43 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stanton 1.1 SWIA-MY-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,175 ft/21 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Red OakROKI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/1,073 ft/123 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Red Oak (ROKI4), 10.3 miles from here, read 30 Sep, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.