Carroll (US 30)RCAI4
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/1,276 ft/28 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Swan Lake State Park is 56° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 81°, and the coolest Monday, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:53 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:02 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 32 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Swan Lake State Park, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 57 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 40, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Thu 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Tue 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Thu 1 AM, lowest 10 miles Tue 10 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Swan Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Carroll (US 30)RCAI4
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/1,276 ft/28 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CarrollCIN
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/1,198 ft/106 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.8 mi away/1,322 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CarrollCINI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/1,257 ft/47 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Carroll 0.4 NIA-CR-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/1,288 ft/16 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.