Leon (I-35)/IA 2)RLEI4
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/1,145 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Decatur County Golf and Country Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Decatur County Golf and Country Club until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 65° today.
Now. Decatur County Golf and Country Club is 53° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 31 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Decatur County Golf and Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 55 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Decatur County Golf and Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Leon (I-35)/IA 2)RLEI4
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/1,145 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LamoniLWD
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/1,093 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lucas 2SSW - Stephens State Forest RAWSSSFI4
A remote fire weather station/23.0 mi away/1,063 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Leon 4.2 EIA-DC-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/1,064 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lamoni3OI
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/1,128 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.