Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/1,229 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Pilot Knob State Park is 56° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 6 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 78°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. Rain is possible Monday (37%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:47 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:54 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 3:00 AM in Pilot Knob State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 74 miles off.
Good each day through Thu Oct 8, led by ozone. 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 8 miles or more through Wed 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Wed 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Pilot Knob State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/1,229 ft/84 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5165GW5165
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/1,281 ft/32 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/9.2 mi away/1,270 ft/43 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Forest City 2 NNEFSCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.3 mi away/1,263 ft/50 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Forest City 0.7 NWIA-WN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,259 ft/54 ft below 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.