Citizen station GW0850GW0850
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/944 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Urbandale Golf & Country Club
Urbandale Golf & Country Club, Iowa
Golf course in Polk County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
53°
61°/55°
Overcast·
Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Urbandale Golf & Country Club 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. Urbandale Golf & Country Club is 53° 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 35 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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.
0UV Low
14Air quality
74%Humidity
92%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
53feels53
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6155
98%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5244
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6745
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7146
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7552
overcast
53°
61°55°
52°44°
58°33°
65°41°
67°45°
71°46°
75°52°
As of 10:00 PM in Urbandale Golf & Country Club, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Urbandale Golf & Country Club
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 8 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good-
- Ozone14Good16 ppb5.3 mi
The days ahead
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 14
- ModerateTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Urbandale Golf & Country Club
0.50 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.50in
- Last 3 days
- 0.50in
Visibility
How far you can see at Urbandale Golf & Country Club, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.13 sq mi
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.6348° N
- Longitude
- 93.7414° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Urbandale Golf & Country 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
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/5.5 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/7.2 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/8.3 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/24.2 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/25.3 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Urbandale 0.5 ESEIA-PK-130
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/964 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JohnstonUBSI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.3 mi away/942 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Johnston (UBSI4), 3.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 15:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Urbandale Golf & Country Club
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Urbandalecity, under 1 mi
- Windsor Heightscity, 3 mi
- Johnstoncity, 3 mi
- Clivecity, 3 mi
- West Des Moinescity, 4 mi
- Grimescity, 5 mi
- Saylorvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Waukeecity, 7 mi
- Des Moinescity, 7 mi
- Polk Citycity, 10 mi
- Ankenycity, 10 mi
- Grangercity, 10 mi