Cedar RapidsCID
At an airfield/0.7 mi away/869 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
The Eastern Iowa Airport, Iowa
Medium airport in Linn County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast 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.
53°
63°/54°
Overcast·
Feels like 53°·Fresh breeze 21 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for The Eastern Iowa Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 54° after 63° today.
Now. The Eastern Iowa Airport is 53° and overcast at 8 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 5 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. 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, 25% lit, and sets at 9:20 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
11Air quality
87%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
53feels53
21mph
Today
Oct 15
6354
99%
20mph
Fri
Oct 16
5444
23%
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5732
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6439
15mph
Mon
Oct 19
6743
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7045
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7349
overcast
53°
63°54°
54°44°
57°32°
64°39°
67°43°
70°45°
73°49°
As of 8:00 PM in The Eastern Iowa Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at The Eastern Iowa Airport
Index 11, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 17 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good6.8 mi
- Ozone-11 ppb6.8 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb6.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- 38TodayOct 15
- 25FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at The Eastern Iowa Airport
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.24in
- Last 3 days
- 0.24in
Visibility
How far you can see at The Eastern Iowa Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CID
- ICAO
- KCID
- IATA
- CID
- Field elevation
- 869 ft
- Serves
- Cedar Rapids
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- CID
- Wind now
- From 310° at 25 mph, read 15 Oct, 19:52
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 8,600 ft | 150 ft | PER | 91° / 271° | 19 mph head, on 27 | 16 mph from the right |
| 13 / 31 | 6,200 ft | 150 ft | PER | 136° / 316° | 25 mph head, on 31 | 3 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest The Eastern Iowa Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Cedar Rapids (US 30)RCII4
Beside a road/3.4 mi away/807 ft/62 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Iowa River AT Coralville DamCRVI4
At a dam/14.8 mi away/682 ft/187 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Swisher 0.4 NNEIA-JH-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/822 ft/47 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SwisherSWHI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/797 ft/72 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near The Eastern Iowa Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Swishercity, 3 mi
- Fairfaxcity, 4 mi
- Shueyvillecity, 5 mi
- Walfordcity, 6 mi
- Cedar Rapidscity, 7 mi
- Elycity, 7 mi
- East Amanacommunity, 9 mi
- Amanacommunity, 10 mi
- Bertramcity, 10 mi
- Atkinscity, 11 mi
- Hiawathacity, 11 mi
- Norwaycity, 11 mi
Airports near The Eastern Iowa Airport
- Iowa City Municipal AirportIOW, 19 mi
- Vinton Veterans Memorial AirparkVTI, 28 mi
- Monticello Regional AirportMXO, 36 mi
- Independence Municipal AirportIIB, 41 mi
- Washington Municipal AirportAWG, 42 mi
- Muscatine Municipal AirportMUT, 46 mi
- Grinnell Regional AirportGGI, 54 mi
- Oelwein Municipal AirportOLZ, 57 mi