Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/3.2 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Bright Grandview Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Bright Grandview Golf Course until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 61° today.
Now. Bright Grandview Golf Course is 53° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 4 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Bright Grandview Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 8 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.55 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Bright Grandview Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/3.2 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AnkenyIKV
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/888 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3886DW3886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/957 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/9.0 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/14.7 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/27.6 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Des Moines 5.2 NEIA-PK-152
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/877 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Des Moines WavelandWGCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/860 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Des Moines Waveland (WGCI4), 6.2 miles from here, read 10 Oct, 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.