Citizen station CW0005CW0005
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/960 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Drake Stadium, Iowa
Stadium in Polk County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
49°
52°/44°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Drake Stadium until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Drake Stadium is 49° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 40°, 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 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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.
0UV Low
17Air quality
74%Humidity
31%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
49feels44
12mph
Today
Oct 16
5244
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5833
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6746
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7146
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7552
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7557
17%
49°
52°44°
58°33°
65°41°
67°46°
71°46°
75°52°
75°57°
As of 12:00 AM in Drake Stadium, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Drake Stadium
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 5 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone17Good21 ppb1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Drake Stadium
0.58 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.58in
- Last 3 days
- 0.58in
Visibility
How far you can see at Drake Stadium, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Stadium
- Home team
- Drake Bulldogs football
- League
- NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
- Level
- College
- Seats
- 14,557
- Roof
- Open air
- County
- Polk County
- State
- Iowa
- Latitude
- 41.6050° N
- Longitude
- 93.6550° W
Stadium map
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Drake Stadium, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/7.0 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/19.4 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/27.5 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Des Moines 3.4 NWIA-PK-120
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/956 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Des Moines WavelandWGCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/860 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Des Moines Waveland (WGCI4), 1.6 miles from here, read 10 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Drake Stadium
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Des Moinescity, 2 mi
- Windsor Heightscity, 3 mi
- Urbandalecity, 5 mi
- Saylorvillecommunity, 6 mi
- Johnstoncity, 6 mi
- West Des Moinescity, 7 mi
- Clivecity, 7 mi
- Pleasant Hillcity, 8 mi
- Norwalkcity, 8 mi
- Grimescity, 9 mi
- Cummingcity, 9 mi
- Ankenycity, 9 mi
Stadiums near Drake Stadium
- Principal Park3 mi
- Jack Trice Stadium28 mi
- Veterans Memorial Stadium104 mi
- Kinnick Stadium109 mi