Marshalltown (US 30)RMTI4
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/955 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golf courses/Iowa/Wandering Creek Golf Course
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wandering Creek Golf Course until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wandering Creek Golf Course is 45° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Wandering Creek Golf Course, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, 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 Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Wandering Creek Golf Course, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Marshalltown (US 30)RMTI4
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/955 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/1,012 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
MarshalltownMIW
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/974 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/34.8 mi away/892 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/36.1 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/39.5 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Marshalltown 1.0 SSWIA-MS-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/971 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MarshalltownMSHI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/899 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.