Altoona (I-80/US 65)RTOI4
Beside a road/3.8 mi away/860 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Copper Creek Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Copper Creek Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Copper Creek Golf Course is 48° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Copper Creek Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.71 in in the last 24 hours, 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Copper Creek 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
Altoona (I-80/US 65)RTOI4
Beside a road/3.8 mi away/860 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AnkenyIKV
At an airfield/6.4 mi away/888 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3886DW3886
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.9 mi away/957 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/11.3 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/12.4 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/29.3 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Pleasant Hill 0.3 NNWIA-PK-58
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/909 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Des Moines WavelandWGCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/860 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Des Moines Waveland (WGCI4), 8.0 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.