LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/6.9 mi away/1,270 ft/19 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Rice Lake State Park is 56° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° 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 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 63°. Rain is possible Monday (37%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 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 30 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Rice Lake State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 67 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 9 miles Wed 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Rice Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/6.9 mi away/1,270 ft/19 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW5290EW5290
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/1,173 ft/78 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/1,229 ft/22 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake MillsLMLI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/1,237 ft/14 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hanlontown 1.4 NNEIA-WT-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,223 ft/28 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.