Ida Grove (US 59)RIGI4
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/1,234 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Ida Grove Golf and Country Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Ida Grove Golf and Country Club until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ida Grove Golf and Country Club is 45° and partly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Ida Grove Golf and Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 42 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.98 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 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Ida Grove Golf and Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ida Grove (US 59)RIGI4
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/1,234 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.7 mi away/1,400 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/16.8 mi away/1,119 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Storm LakeSLB
At an airfield/20.9 mi away/1,476 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Battle Creek 3NEBTLI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/1,247 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Arthur 3.7 SSWIA-ID-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/1,483 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.