AmesAMW
At an airfield/1.5 mi away/919 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Coldwater Golf Links
Coldwater Golf Links, Iowa
Golf course in Story County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Much of central Iowa. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
46°
52°/40°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Coldwater Golf Links until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Coldwater Golf Links is 46° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:22 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
79%Humidity
75%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
46feels41
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5240
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6638
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7243
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7549
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7554
20%
46°
52°40°
59°30°
66°38°
67°43°
72°43°
75°49°
75°54°
As of 2:00 AM in Coldwater Golf Links, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Coldwater Golf Links
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 33 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone17Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Coldwater Golf Links
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.10in
- Last 3 days
- 1.10in
Visibility
How far you can see at Coldwater Golf Links, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.24 sq mi
- County
- Story County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.0127° N
- Longitude
- 93.6215° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Coldwater Golf Links, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/1,027 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/973 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/5.1 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/36.0 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ames 0.8 ENEIA-SR-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/929 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ames 5 SEAESI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.7 mi away/863 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Coldwater Golf Links
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.