SaratogaSRGI4
Beside a road/3.9 mi away/1,357 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Riceville Country Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Riceville Country Club until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Riceville Country Club is 46° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. Rain is likely tomorrow (52%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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. 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Riceville Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Rochester Area (MN), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.84 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Riceville Country Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SaratogaSRGI4
Beside a road/3.9 mi away/1,357 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Charles CityCCY
At an airfield/20.5 mi away/1,116 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1775GW1775
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.7 mi away/1,010 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
ElmaELMI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.1 mi away/1,175 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Osage 4.7 EIA-MT-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.3 mi away/1,169 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Elma (ELMI4), 10.1 miles from here, read 13 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.