Sidney (I-29/IA 2)RSDI4
Beside a road/6.1 mi away/942 ft/234 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Waubonsie State Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Waubonsie State Park is 46° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Waubonsie State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 28 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 0.66 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Waubonsie State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sidney (I-29/IA 2)RSDI4
Beside a road/6.1 mi away/942 ft/234 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Nishnabotna River 1 W RandolphRDPI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.4 mi away/942 ft/234 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ShenandoahSDA
At an airfield/14.1 mi away/971 ft/205 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW5908FW5908
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.7 mi away/1,196 ft/20 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Thurman 7.1 SSEIA-FM-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/977 ft/199 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RandolphRANI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.2 mi away/981 ft/195 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Randolph (RANI4), 13.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.