AmesAMW
At an airfield/1.9 mi away/919 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Jack Trice Stadium is 54° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 35% lit, and rises at 1:22 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 38 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Jack Trice Stadium, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 24, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 5, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 7 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.62 in over the last 3 days, to Sun 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Mon 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Mon 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Jack Trice Stadium, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
AmesAMW
At an airfield/1.9 mi away/919 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/3.7 mi away/1,027 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/4.4 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.0 mi away/1,073 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/36.4 mi away/903 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ames 1.0 NWIA-SR-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/912 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ames 5 SEAESI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.2 mi away/863 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.