Citizen station GW0954GW0954
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,013 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/South Hardin Recreation Area
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for South Hardin Recreation Area until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. South Hardin Recreation Area is 49° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 73°, 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 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-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 11:00 PM in South Hardin Recreation Area, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.91 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 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest South Hardin Recreation Area, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station GW0954GW0954
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,013 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MarshalltownMIW
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/974 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/14.3 mi away/1,142 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/37.5 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/37.6 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Conrad 5.2 NWIA-GY-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/1,051 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ZearingZRGI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/1,056 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.