Citizen station FW1669FW1669
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/1,090 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Radcliffe Friendly Fareways
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Radcliffe Friendly Fareways 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 52° after 60° today.
Now. Radcliffe Friendly Fareways is 50° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 1 AM, with some 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. 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, 25% 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. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Radcliffe Friendly Fareways, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 54 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
1.25 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Radcliffe Friendly Fareways, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW1669FW1669
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/1,090 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
WilliamsRWMI4
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/1,197 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Iowa FallsIFA
At an airfield/13.3 mi away/1,137 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.1 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/26.6 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Hubbard 1.3 NNWIA-HD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/1,109 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Story CitySTYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/991 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.