EsthervilleEST
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/1,316 ft/84 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Okamanpeedam State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Okamanpeedam State Park is 44° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 PM. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Okamanpeedam State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 58 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.00 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 3 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Okamanpeedam State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
EsthervilleEST
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/1,316 ft/84 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Estherville - Hwy 9RETI4
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/1,277 ft/45 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW7399FW7399
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.0 mi away/1,449 ft/217 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Swea City 4.0 NWIA-KS-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/1,204 ft/28 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Estherville 4 EESTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.3 mi away/1,335 ft/103 ft above 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.