Des Moines (I-35)RDSI4
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/735 ft/72 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Walnut Woods State Park, Iowa
State Park in Polk County, Iowa54°
78°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Light breeze 5 mph S
Now. Walnut Woods State Park is 54° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° 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 80°, and the coolest Thursday, near 71°. Rain is possible Monday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:57 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
71%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
54feels54
now, clear
Today
Oct 6
7853
15mph
Wed
Oct 7
7757
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 8
7152
mostly clear day
Fri
Oct 9
7452
overcast
Sat
Oct 10
8060
16mph
Sun
Oct 11
7964
12mph
Mon
Oct 12
7160
30%
12mph
54°
78°53°
77°57°
71°52°
74°52°
80°60°
79°64°
71°60°
As of 3:00 AM in Walnut Woods State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Walnut Woods State Park
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 4 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)37Good6.6 mi
- Ozone28Good32 ppb6.6 mi
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 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Walnut Woods State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 2 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 Walnut Woods State Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Wed 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.36 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 807 ft
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.5421° N
- Longitude
- 93.7363° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Walnut Woods State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/4.3 mi away/965 ft/158 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW0005CW0005
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/960 ft/153 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/11.4 mi away/896 ft/89 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/23.3 mi away/903 ft/96 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/31.7 mi away/1,073 ft/266 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
West Des Moines 0.4 WIA-PK-110
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/886 ft/79 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Des Moines AirportDSXI4
At an airfield/4.2 mi away/953 ft/146 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 Des Moines Airport (DSXI4), 4.2 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Walnut Woods State Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Windsor Heightscity, 5 mi
- Norwalkcity, 5 mi
- Clivecity, 6 mi
- Urbandalecity, 6 mi
- Des Moinescity, 7 mi
- Waukeecity, 8 mi
- Johnstoncity, 9 mi
- Spring Hillcity, 10 mi
- Grimescity, 11 mi
- Saylorvillecommunity, 11 mi