Colfax - I-80RCFI4
Beside a road/12.7 mi away/788 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/The Harvester Golf Club
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for The Harvester 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 52° after 62° today.
Now. The Harvester Golf Club is 51° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in The Harvester Golf Club, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 33 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.74 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 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest The Harvester Golf Club, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.5 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Colfax - I-80RCFI4
Beside a road/12.7 mi away/788 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.2 mi away/1,012 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Newton MuniTNU
At an airfield/17.1 mi away/942 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/21.1 mi away/892 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/22.0 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/27.6 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Melbourne 0.2 WNWIA-MS-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.5 mi away/1,040 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ames 5 SEAESI4
At a cooperative observer's station/19.0 mi away/863 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.