Marshalltown (US 30)RMTI4
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/955 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Elmwood Country Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Elmwood Country Club until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. Elmwood Country Club is 51° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 1 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. Rain is possible tomorrow (34%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Elmwood Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 43 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.76 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 7 instruments nearest Elmwood Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Marshalltown (US 30)RMTI4
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/955 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/1,012 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MarshalltownMIW
At an airfield/6.1 mi away/974 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/35.7 mi away/892 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/37.0 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Marshalltown 1.0 SSWIA-MS-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/971 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MarshalltownMSHI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/899 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.