Ottumwa (US 63)ROTI4
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Ottumwa Country Club
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 68° today.
Now. Ottumwa Country Club is 54° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Ottumwa Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 32 miles off.
Highest 55, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 0.07 in over the last 3 days, 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 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Ottumwa Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ottumwa (US 63)ROTI4
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/643 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
OttumwaOTM
At an airfield/4.8 mi away/846 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2804GW2804
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.9 mi away/751 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ottumwa 2.0 NNEIA-WP-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/821 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OttumwaOTWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/804 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.