Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/8.0 mi away/892 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Gateway Recreation Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Gateway Recreation Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gateway Recreation Golf Course is 46° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 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 6 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Gateway Recreation Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.35 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 5 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Gateway Recreation Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/8.0 mi away/892 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/9.1 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
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Newton MuniTNU
At an airfield/11.5 mi away/942 ft/- ft from here
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PleasantvilleRPEI4
Beside a road/13.8 mi away/893 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7443GW7443
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.2 mi away/937 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Prairie City 5.0 SWIA-JS-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.8 mi away/899 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Pella 1 SPEAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.0 mi away/761 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Pella 1 S (PEAI4), 11.0 miles from here, read 15 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.