In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/1,220 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Slippery Elm Golf Course
Slippery Elm Golf Course, Iowa
Golf course in Hancock County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * 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.
44°
50°/39°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 38°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Slippery Elm Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Slippery Elm Golf Course is 44° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
43Air quality
86%Humidity
76%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
44feels38
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5039
38%
26mph
Sat
Oct 17
5629
16mph
Sun
Oct 18
6439
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6542
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7349
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7354
20%
44°
50°39°
56°29°
64°39°
65°42°
70°43°
73°49°
73°54°
As of 12:00 AM in Slippery Elm Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Slippery Elm Golf Course
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 70 miles off.
43Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)43Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- 23TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Slippery Elm Golf Course
0.88 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.88in
- Last 3 days
- 0.88in
Visibility
How far you can see at Slippery Elm Golf Course, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 2,740,000 sq ft
- County
- Hancock County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.9984° N
- Longitude
- 93.6028° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Slippery Elm Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mason City (I-35)RMCI4
Beside a road/13.5 mi away/1,234 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/16.2 mi away/1,229 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kanawha 4.1 ESEIA-HN-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/1,223 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KanawhaKANI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/1,181 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Slippery Elm Golf Course
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.