In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/973 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Golf courses/Iowa/Veenker Memorial Golf Course
Veenker Memorial Golf Course, Iowa
Golf course in Story 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.
51°
61°/51°
Overcast·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Veenker Memorial Golf Course 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. Veenker Memorial Golf Course is 51° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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. 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
14Air quality
85%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
51feels51
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
6151
98%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5240
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6638
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7243
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7550
10%
51°
61°51°
52°40°
59°30°
66°38°
67°43°
72°43°
75°50°
As of 9:00 PM in Veenker Memorial Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Veenker Memorial Golf Course
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 35 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone12Good12 ppb13.4 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 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Veenker Memorial Golf Course
1.55 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.55in
- Last 3 days
- 1.55in
Visibility
How far you can see at Veenker Memorial Golf Course, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Golf course
- Area
- 0.27 sq mi
- County
- Story County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 42.0385° N
- Longitude
- 93.6509° W
Course map
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Veenker Memorial Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
AmesAMW
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/919 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/4.2 mi away/1,027 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/4.4 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.5 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/38.3 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ames 2.0 WNWIA-SR-45
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/971 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ames 8 WSWAMSI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/1,096 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Veenker Memorial Golf Course
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.