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At an airfield/15.2 mi away/1,004 ft/124 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Springbrook State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Springbrook State Park is 47° and overcast at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Springbrook State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 AM.
Precipitation
0.55 in in the last 24 hours, 0.76 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 7 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Springbrook State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
PerryPRO
At an airfield/15.2 mi away/1,004 ft/124 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WA2GTMWA2GTM
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.8 mi away/956 ft/172 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jefferson (IA 4)RJFI4
Beside a road/19.1 mi away/1,017 ft/111 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.1 mi away/1,322 ft/194 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bayard 2.9 EIA-GT-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/1,151 ft/23 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Guthrie CenterGTHI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.2 mi away/1,211 ft/83 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.