Beside a road/12.1 mi away/1,142 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Aplington Recreation Complex
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Aplington Recreation Complex until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Aplington Recreation Complex is 49° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 1 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Aplington Recreation Complex, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.25 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Aplington Recreation Complex, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/12.1 mi away/1,142 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
HamptonHPT
At an airfield/19.2 mi away/1,149 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5167GW5167
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.8 mi away/923 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Aplington 4.9 SSEIA-GY-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/948 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KesleyKSLI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/1,012 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.