Temperature
46 F at 1 AM; 54 F at its warmest, 2 AM Thursday, and 45 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
- Now
- 46F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 54F
- 2 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 45F
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Audubon County Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Audubon County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of Iowa. * WHEN...From late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
44°
51°/40°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 40°·Light breeze 8 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Audubon County Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Audubon County Airport is 44° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 8 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:29 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
78%Humidity
49%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
44feels40
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5140
10%
18mph
Sat
Oct 17
5830
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6744
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7245
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7552
11%
Thu
Oct 22
7556
17%
44°
51°40°
58°30°
65°39°
67°44°
72°45°
75°52°
75°56°
As of 1:00 AM in Audubon County Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Audubon County Airport
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 51 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 15
- 21TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Audubon County Airport
1.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.05in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
Visibility
How far you can see at Audubon County Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- ADU
- ICAO
- KADU
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,287 ft
- Serves
- Audubon
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- ADU
- Wind now
- From 300° at 7 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 3,641 ft | 60 ft | Concrete | 148° / 328° | 6 mph head, on 32 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Audubon (ADU), Audubon County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 39 F, the air 76% saturated; the humidity ran from 76% at 1 AM to 100% at 5 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 39F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 76%
- Humidity, range
- 76 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the west northwest at 1 AM; at its strongest 16 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 25 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 16mph
- 3 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 25mph
- 4 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.23 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.16 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.23inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.16inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 3 miles at 4 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 3mi
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
1.07 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.27 in, in the hour to 8 AM Thursday.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.07in
- Wettest hour
- 0.27in
- 8 AM Thursday
- Hours with some
- 11
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Audubon: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Audubon County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
AudubonADU
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,310 ft/23 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.7 mi away/1,322 ft/35 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Adair (I-80)RDAI4
Beside a road/17.4 mi away/1,476 ft/189 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
AudubonAUDI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/1,290 ft/3 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Elk Horn 0.2 SSEIA-SH-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.5 mi away/1,355 ft/68 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Audubon County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Auduboncity, 1 mi
- Exiracity, 8 mi
- Kimballtoncity, 9 mi
- Graycity, 10 mi
- Elk Horncity, 10 mi
- Braytoncity, 11 mi
- Jacksonvillecommunity, 12 mi
- Templetoncity, 15 mi
- Dedhamcity, 15 mi
- Manningcity, 16 mi
- Irwincity, 16 mi
- Coon Rapidscity, 17 mi
Airports near Audubon County Airport
- Atlantic Municipal AirportAIO, 21 mi
- Harlan Municipal AirportHNR, 23 mi
- Arthur N Neu AirportCIN, 25 mi
- Denison Municipal AirportDNS, 31 mi
- Perry Municipal AirportPRO, 40 mi
- Red Oak Municipal AirportRDK, 51 mi
- Council Bluffs Municipal AirportCBF, 53 mi
- Creston Municipal AirportCSQ, 55 mi