Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/740 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is 70° and clear at 2 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 74°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 71% lit, and sets at 2:27 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 10 hours 55 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 PM in Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 11 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Thu 7 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 1 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Thu 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.7 mi away/740 ft/15 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW5749CW5749
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.2 mi away/754 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Iowa CityIOW
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/669 ft/86 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tipton (I-80)RTPI4
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/663 ft/92 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
West Branch 2.3 SSWIA-JH-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/764 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Iowa CityICYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/650 ft/105 ft below 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.