Ankeny (I-35)RAKI4
Beside a road/0.6 mi away/866 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Talons of Tuscany Golf Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Talons of Tuscany Golf Club until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 51° after 61° today.
Now. Talons of Tuscany Golf Club is 52° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 4 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 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Talons of Tuscany Golf Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 15 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.51 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Talons of Tuscany Golf Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Ankeny (I-35)RAKI4
Beside a road/0.6 mi away/866 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW3016DW3016
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/986 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AnkenyIKV
At an airfield/4.5 mi away/888 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/6.8 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/18.6 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/20.2 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ankeny 2.3 NEIA-PK-139
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/932 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at NWS Des Moines (DMX), 7.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 19:00. 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.