Beside a road/15.1 mi away/1,329 ft/97 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Wanata State Park is 58° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° 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 80°, and the coolest Monday, near 65°. Rain is possible Monday (31%). The windiest day is Saturday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:54 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:02 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 31 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Wanata State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 59 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Thu 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Wanata State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/15.1 mi away/1,329 ft/97 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CherokeeCKP
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/1,226 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1255FW1255
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.9 mi away/1,451 ft/219 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.7 mi away/1,400 ft/168 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/40.0 mi away/1,119 ft/113 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
PetersonPTRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.3 mi away/1,368 ft/136 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sutherland 0.5 NEIA-OB-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.5 mi away/1,412 ft/180 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Peterson (PTRI4), 1.3 miles from here, read 26 Sep, 10:00. 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.