Temperature
50 F at 10 PM; 54 F at its warmest, 3 AM, and 50 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 50F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 54F
- 3 AM
- Lowest
- 50F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Council Bluffs Municipal Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Pottawattamie County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
49°
57°/55°
Overcast·
Feels like 45°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Council Bluffs Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Council Bluffs Municipal Airport is 49° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 3 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
66%Humidity
95%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
49feels45
now, overcast
Today
Oct 15
5755
100%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5142
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6540
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6646
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7248
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7655
10%
49°
57°55°
51°42°
58°32°
65°40°
66°46°
72°48°
76°55°
As of 10:00 PM in Council Bluffs Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Council Bluffs Municipal Airport
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Omaha (NE), 12 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good11.1 mi
- Ozone22Good23 ppb10.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)20Good11.1 mi
- Sulfur dioxide4Good3.1 ppb10.2 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm11.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- 35TodayOct 15
- 30FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Council Bluffs Municipal Airport
1.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. 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 Council Bluffs Municipal Airport, the next 46 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
- CBF
- ICAO
- KCBF
- IATA
- CBF
- Field elevation
- 1,253 ft
- Serves
- Council Bluffs
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CBF
- Wind now
- From 320° at 12 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 3,650 ft | 60 ft | Concrete | 141° / 321° | 12 mph head, on 32 | None |
| 18 / 36 | 5,500 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 182° / 2° | 9 mph head, on 36 | 8 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Council Bluffs (CBF), Council Bluffs Municipal 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 66% saturated; the humidity ran from 62% at 9 PM to 100% at 4 AM.
- Dew point now
- 39F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 66%
- Humidity, range
- 62 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
12 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 17 mph, 9 PM, with a gust of 36 mph at 9 PM.
- Now
- 12mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 17mph
- 9 PM
- Highest gust
- 36mph
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.24 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.15 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.24inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.05inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.15inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.3 miles at 10 AM, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 0.3mi
- 10 AM
- Hours under a mile
- 2
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 6 AM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 4,000ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 200ft
- 6 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 24
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Council Bluffs: 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 Council Bluffs Municipal 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
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,240 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Council Bluffs No2RCCI4
Beside a road/2.2 mi away/1,030 ft/223 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Honey Creek 1SE - Hitchcock RAWSHITI4
A remote fire weather station/12.2 mi away/1,273 ft/20 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Council Bluffs 3.3 EIA-PT-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/1,193 ft/60 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
UnderwoodUNDI4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/1,099 ft/154 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Underwood (UNDI4), 9.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Council Bluffs Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Council Bluffscity, 5 mi
- Westoncommunity, 6 mi
- McClellandcity, 6 mi
- Treynorcity, 8 mi
- Carter Lakecity, 8 mi
- Mineolacommunity, 9 mi
- Crescentcity, 9 mi
- Underwoodcity, 10 mi
- Bentleycommunity, 11 mi
- Silver Citycity, 12 mi
- Glenwoodcity, 14 mi
- Neolacity, 15 mi
Airports near Council Bluffs Municipal Airport
- Red Oak Municipal AirportRDK, 31 mi
- Harlan Municipal AirportHNR, 31 mi
- Atlantic Municipal AirportAIO, 38 mi
- Shenandoah Municipal AirportSDA, 39 mi
- Audubon County AirportADU, 53 mi
- Schenck FieldICL, 53 mi
- Denison Municipal AirportDNS, 54 mi
- Arthur N Neu AirportCIN, 74 mi