Jefferson (IA 4)RJFI4
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/1,017 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Lakeside Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lakeside Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lakeside Golf Course is 45° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 27 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 76°, 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 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Lakeside Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 48 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
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 0.87 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 6 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Lakeside Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Jefferson (IA 4)RJFI4
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/1,017 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
PerryPRO
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/1,004 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WA2GTMWA2GTM
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.1 mi away/956 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.4 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/29.2 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Grand Junction 0.2 WSWIA-GN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/1,044 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Jefferson 2 NWJFFI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/1,060 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
-
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.