Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/938 ft/141 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Dolliver Memorial State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dolliver Memorial State Park is 49° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 1 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Dolliver Memorial State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 64 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
1.15 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Dolliver Memorial State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/938 ft/141 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.1 mi away/1,111 ft/32 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Webster CityEBS
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/1,109 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/32.1 mi away/1,073 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/33.4 mi away/1,073 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Dodge 1.2 SIA-WB-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/1,108 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Dodge 5 NNWWMTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/988 ft/91 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Dodge 5 NNW (WMTI4), 9.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:27. 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.