CherokeeCKP
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,226 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cherokee County Regional Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Cherokee County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * 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.
46°
55°/46°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cherokee County Regional Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cherokee County Regional Airport is 46° and mostly clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. 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 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
76%Humidity
21%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
46feels41
12mph
Today
Oct 15
5546
98%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5040
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6539
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
17%
46°
55°46°
50°40°
57°29°
65°39°
66°43°
71°44°
74°51°
As of 9:00 PM in Cherokee County Regional Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Cherokee County Regional Airport
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 44 miles off.
18Good
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cherokee County Regional Airport
0.57 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.57in
- Last 3 days
- 0.57in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cherokee County Regional Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CKP
- ICAO
- KCKP
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,227 ft
- Serves
- Cherokee
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CKP
- Wind now
- From 300° at 10 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 unlit | 1,941 ft | 120 ft | Grass | 11° / 191° | 3 mph head, on 01 | 9 mph from the left |
| 18 / 36 | 4,001 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 183° / 3° | 5 mph head, on 36 | 9 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cherokee County Regional 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 now4 instruments
CleghornRCGI4
Beside a road/10.0 mi away/1,429 ft/202 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.2 mi away/1,400 ft/173 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/23.5 mi away/1,119 ft/108 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
CherokeeCKPI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.0 mi away/1,201 ft/26 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cherokee 1.8 ENEIA-CK-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/1,311 ft/84 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 Cherokee County Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Cherokee County Regional Airport
- Storm Lake Municipal AirportSLB, 19 mi
- Le Mars Municipal AirportLRJ, 33 mi
- Spencer Municipal AirportSPW, 35 mi
- Sioux County Regional AirportSXK, 35 mi
- Sheldon Regional AirportSHL, 36 mi
- Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day FieldSUX, 48 mi
- Denison Municipal AirportDNS, 52 mi
- Arthur N Neu AirportCIN, 61 mi