Boone MuniBNW
At an airfield/1.2 mi away/1,146 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Cedar Pointe Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cedar Pointe Golf Course until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 59° today.
Now. Cedar Pointe Golf Course is 51° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 2 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 23 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Cedar Pointe Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 37 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
1.20 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 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Cedar Pointe Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Boone MuniBNW
At an airfield/1.2 mi away/1,146 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.4 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/8.4 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/973 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/15.5 mi away/1,027 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Boone 0.5 NEIA-BN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,125 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BooneBNWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.2 mi away/915 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.