Citizen station FW8044FW8044
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/949 ft/150 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Banner Lakes at Summerset State Park is 60° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south-southwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:27 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Banner Lakes at Summerset State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 8 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 7 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.35 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Tue 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Mon 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 8 instruments nearest Banner Lakes at Summerset State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station FW8044FW8044
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/949 ft/150 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/7.8 mi away/965 ft/166 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/10.7 mi away/922 ft/123 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/16.0 mi away/903 ft/104 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/17.6 mi away/892 ft/93 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/39.2 mi away/1,073 ft/274 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Indianola 3.9 NNWIA-WR-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/850 ft/51 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Indianola 4 WIDAI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.5 mi away/961 ft/162 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Indianola 4 W (IDAI4), 5.5 miles from here, read 18 Oct, 07:00. 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.