Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/938 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Gowrie Municipal Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Gowrie Municipal Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gowrie Municipal Golf Course is 45° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Gowrie Municipal Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 60 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 13, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.20 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Gowrie Municipal Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/938 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/1,111 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fort DodgeFOD
At an airfield/19.7 mi away/1,165 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.3 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/34.5 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Moorland 0.2 WNWIA-WB-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/1,138 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Dodge 5 NNWWMTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/16.8 mi away/988 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Dodge 5 NNW (WMTI4), 16.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:27. 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.