GrinnellGGI
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/1,007 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Grinnell College Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Grinnell College Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Grinnell College Golf Course is 45° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 Thursday, near 74°, 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 6:28 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Grinnell College Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 51 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
0.29 in in the last 24 hours, 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Grinnell College Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
GrinnellGGI
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/1,007 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Grinnell (I-80)RGRI4
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.0 mi away/1,012 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/32.3 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grinnell 0.7 NEIA-PW-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,024 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grinnell 3 SWGRII4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/974 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.