Fort DodgeFOD
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/1,165 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Frank Gotch State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Frank Gotch State Park is 47° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Frank Gotch State Park, Iowa.
Precipitation
1.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Frank Gotch State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Fort DodgeFOD
At an airfield/8.9 mi away/1,165 ft/101 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
HumboldtRHUI4
Beside a road/9.4 mi away/1,118 ft/54 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.4 mi away/1,111 ft/47 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Humboldt 0.4 NIA-HB-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/1,075 ft/11 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Dodge 5 NNWWMTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.9 mi away/988 ft/76 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Dodge 5 NNW (WMTI4), 11.9 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.