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temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Dows Golf Course
Dows Golf Course, Iowa
Golf course in Franklin 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.
44°
51°/40°
Overcast·
Feels like 38°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Dows Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dows Golf Course is 44° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 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 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
38Air quality
92%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
44feels38
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5140
18%
25mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6440
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7450
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7455
20%
44°
51°40°
57°30°
64°40°
66°43°
71°44°
74°50°
74°55°
As of 2:00 AM in Dows Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Dows Golf Course
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 56 miles off.
38Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)38Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 23TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dows Golf Course
0.95 in in the last 24 hours, 0.98 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.95in
- Last 3 days
- 0.98in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 97%
Visibility
How far you can see at Dows Golf Course, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 2,140,000 sq ft
- County
- Franklin County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.6542° N
- Longitude
- 93.4809° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Dows Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
HamptonHPT
At an airfield/13.7 mi away/1,149 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1669FW1669
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.1 mi away/1,090 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dows 1.4 WNWIA-WG-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/1,184 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Iowa FallsIWAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.7 mi away/1,132 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 Dows Golf Course
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.