LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/1,270 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Gruis Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Gruis Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gruis Golf Course is 43° and overcast at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 22 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Gruis Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 67 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
1.10 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Gruis Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/16.0 mi away/1,270 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/16.1 mi away/1,229 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.3 mi away/1,220 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Woden 3.3 SWIA-HN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.1 mi away/1,221 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Forest City 2 NNEFSCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/15.3 mi away/1,263 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.