Beside a road/17.7 mi away/955 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Pammel State Park is 54° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 3 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 Thursday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:59 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 33 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Pammel State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 7, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Wed 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Wed 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Pammel State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/17.7 mi away/955 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW7529CW7529
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.7 mi away/947 ft/8 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CrestonCSQ
At an airfield/24.3 mi away/1,290 ft/351 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/34.5 mi away/896 ft/43 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Winterset 2 NNWWTRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/1,093 ft/154 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winterset 4.7 SEIA-MD-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/1,102 ft/163 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.