Sloan I-29RSOI4
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/1,053 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Sloan Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sloan Golf Course until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sloan Golf Course is 44° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Sloan Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, WTN1 (NE), 9 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.56 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Sloan Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Sloan I-29RSOI4
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/1,053 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sioux CitySUX
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/1,102 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW2980FW2980
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.9 mi away/1,103 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/27.3 mi away/1,119 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.5 mi away/1,400 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sloan 0.2 WIA-WD-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,071 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Holly Springs 1NWHLYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/1,066 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Holly Springs 1NW (HLYI4), 7.7 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.