West Grand Golf, Iowa

Golf course in Dallas County, Iowa

53° 61°/55°

Overcast· Feels like 53°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NW

Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for West Grand Golf 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. West Grand Golf is 53° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 43 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 23 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.

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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

14Air quality

79%Humidity

89%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

53feels53

14mph

Today

Oct 15

6155

98%

18mph

Fri

Oct 16

5244

23mph

Sat

Oct 17

5833

12mph

Sun

Oct 18

6541

15mph

Mon

Oct 19

6746

Tue

Oct 20

7146

Wed

Oct 21

7552

53°

61°55°

52°44°

58°33°

65°41°

67°46°

71°46°

75°52°

As of 9:00 PM in West Grand Golf, Iowa.

Air quality

The air at West Grand Golf

Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 7 miles off.

14Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good9.2 mi
Ozone12Good15 ppb9.2 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 West Grand Golf

0.84 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: 0.84in
Last 3 days: 0.84in

Visibility

How far you can see at West Grand Golf, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.

Golf course

Area: 1,090,000 sq ft
County: Dallas County
State: Iowa
Latitude: 41.5362° N
Longitude: 93.7979° W

Course map

West Grand Golf and the streets round it, north up. The sheet is 2,362 ft across; the bar is 500 ft.1,890 ft across; the bar is 500 ft. Inside its outline the map files 1 green, 3 tees and 3 bunkers. Fairways are ruled, greens ruled in blue, bunkers stippled and water in level lines; the course is outlined in blue. Sources

What is measuring near here

The 8 instruments nearest West Grand Golf, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.

measured now6 instruments

Des Moines (I-35)RDSI4

Beside a road/1.5 mi away/735 ft/- ft from here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Citizen station CW7529CW7529

In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.0 mi away/947 ft/- ft from here

temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure

Des MoinesDSM

At an airfield/7.5 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4

At a reservoir/12.9 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here