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temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Otter Creek Golf Course
Otter Creek Golf Course, Iowa
Golf course in Polk County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Much of central Iowa. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
47°
51°/43°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 41°·Moderate breeze 14 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Otter Creek Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Otter Creek Golf Course is 47° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
77%Humidity
79%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
47feels41
14mph
Today
Oct 16
5143
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6540
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6745
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7146
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7456
18%
47°
51°43°
58°32°
65°40°
67°45°
71°46°
74°51°
74°56°
As of 1:00 AM in Otter Creek Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Otter Creek Golf Course
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 17 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone17Good16 ppb8.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Otter Creek Golf Course
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.43in
- Last 3 days
- 0.43in
Visibility
How far you can see at Otter Creek Golf Course, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.3 sq mi
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.7685° N
- Longitude
- 93.5752° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Otter Creek Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station DW3016DW3016
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/986 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AnkenyIKV
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/888 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/7.4 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/17.6 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/20.9 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ankeny 2.3 NEIA-PK-139
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/932 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at NWS Des Moines (DMX), 8.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Otter Creek Golf Course
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.