SheldonSHL
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/1,418 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Otter Valley Country Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Otter Valley Country Club until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Otter Valley Country Club is 45° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, under 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 29°.
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 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Otter Valley Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Sioux Falls (SD), 40 miles off.
Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.67 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 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Otter Valley Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SheldonSHL
At an airfield/9.2 mi away/1,418 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW2631EW2631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.2 mi away/1,424 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alton (IA10)RTNI4
Beside a road/18.6 mi away/1,411 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hull 0.4 NWIA-SX-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/1,401 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SheldonSHDI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/1,430 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Sheldon (SHDI4), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.