Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/1,027 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Indian Creek Country Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Indian Creek Country Club until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. Indian Creek Country Club is 51° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 4 AM, with some cloud. 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Indian Creek Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 33 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.00 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 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Indian Creek Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/1,027 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AmesAMW
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/919 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/973 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/14.1 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.0 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/30.3 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Nevada 2.9 SSEIA-SR-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,010 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ames 5 SEAESI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/863 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.