Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/938 ft/141 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Dolliver Memorial State Park is 55° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 57° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 79°, and the coolest Monday, near 68°. Rain is possible Monday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:58 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 31 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Dolliver Memorial State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 64 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Thu 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Wed 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Dolliver Memorial State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Fort Dodge (US 20)RFDI4
Beside a road/5.9 mi away/938 ft/141 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.1 mi away/1,111 ft/32 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Webster CityEBS
At an airfield/11.0 mi away/1,109 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/32.1 mi away/1,073 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/33.4 mi away/1,073 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Dodge 1.2 SIA-WB-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/1,108 ft/29 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Dodge 5 NNWWMTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/988 ft/91 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Fort Dodge 5 NNW (WMTI4), 9.4 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 06:59. 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.