92 @ Muscatine/Ms RiverSS0693
Beside a road/8.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 67° today.
Now. Wildcat Den State Park is 57° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 52°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Wildcat Den State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Muscatine (IA), 9 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, 0.22 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Wildcat Den State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
92 @ Muscatine/Ms RiverSS0693
Beside a road/8.2 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MuscatineMUT
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/543 ft/187 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3396DW3396
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.6 mi away/735 ft/5 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Le Claire LD14LECI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.6 mi away/679 ft/51 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Durant 5.3 SIA-MC-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/768 ft/38 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Muscatine 2 NMSTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/699 ft/31 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Muscatine 2 N (MSTI4), 8.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.