Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Drake Stadium is 54° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 Tuesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 70°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 35% lit, and rises at 1:23 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 39 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Drake Stadium, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 5 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 5, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Tue 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Mon 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Drake Stadium, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Des Moines (I-235)RDMI4
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/922 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Des MoinesDSM
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/965 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/7.0 mi away/896 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/19.4 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/27.5 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Des Moines 3.4 NWIA-PK-120
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/956 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Des Moines WavelandWGCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/860 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Des Moines Waveland (WGCI4), 1.6 miles from here, read 3 Oct, 07:00. 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.