Adair (I-80)RDAI4
Beside a road/5.6 mi away/1,476 ft/105 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Lake Anita State Park until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Anita State Park is 45° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Lake Anita State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.74 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 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Lake Anita State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Adair (I-80)RDAI4
Beside a road/5.6 mi away/1,476 ft/105 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0898GW0898
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/1,153 ft/218 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
AtlanticAIO
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/1,154 ft/217 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/31.2 mi away/1,322 ft/49 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Massena 0.5 NEIA-CS-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/1,326 ft/45 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MassenaMSNI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.9 mi away/1,211 ft/160 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.