Citizen station FW7822FW7822
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/840 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/La Porte City Golf Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for La Porte City Golf Club until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 61° today.
Now. La Porte City Golf Club is 51° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 3 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (38%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 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 La Porte City Golf Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.71 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 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest La Porte City Golf Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW7822FW7822
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/840 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Urbana (I-380)RURI4
Beside a road/9.9 mi away/991 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
VintonVTI
At an airfield/10.0 mi away/837 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
La Porte City 0.2 EIA-BH-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/824 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
VintonVNTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/768 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.