Citizen station EW2631EW2631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,424 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/The Ridge
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for The Ridge until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. The Ridge is 46° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 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 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in The Ridge, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 37 miles off.
Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.96 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest The Ridge, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW2631EW2631
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/1,424 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sioux CountySXK
At an airfield/4.1 mi away/1,414 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alton (IA10)RTNI4
Beside a road/5.6 mi away/1,411 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MilnervilleBKTI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.8 mi away/1,224 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sioux Center 2 SESIXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.0 mi away/1,368 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sioux Center 1.0 SSEIA-SX-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/1,411 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Sioux Center 2 SE (SIXI4), 1.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 15:54. 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.