Temperature
54 F at 9 PM; 59 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 54 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 54F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 59F
- 12 AM
- Lowest
- 54F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Clinton Municipal Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Clinton 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°
65°/54°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 53°·Fresh breeze 20 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Clinton Municipal 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 56° after 65° today.
Now. Clinton Municipal Airport is 53° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 49°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the west-northwest at 20 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 south-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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
88%Humidity
72%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
53feels53
20mph
Today
Oct 15
6554
98%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5645
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6439
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6842
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7448
overcast
53°
65°54°
56°45°
58°32°
64°39°
68°42°
71°44°
74°48°
As of 11:00 PM in Clinton Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Clinton Municipal Airport
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 7 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good6.1 mi
- Ozone8Good11 ppb8.4 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1.8 ppb24.6 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0 ppb6.1 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm24.6 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Clinton Municipal Airport
0.24 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 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 Clinton Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 10 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CWI
- ICAO
- KCWI
- IATA
- CWI
- Field elevation
- 708 ft
- Serves
- Clinton
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CWI
- Wind now
- From 310° at 24 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:46
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 5,204 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 29° / 209° | 5 mph head, on 03 | 24 mph from the left |
| 14 / 32 | 4,201 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 145° / 325° | 23 mph head, on 32 | 6 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Clinton (CWI), Clinton Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 52 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 80% at 3 AM to 99% at 7 AM.
- Dew point now
- 52F
- 9 PM
- Humidity now
- 94%
- Humidity, range
- 80 to 99%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
16 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 22 mph, 9 PM, with a gust of 32 mph at 9 PM.
- Now
- 16mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 22mph
- 9 PM
- Highest gust
- 32mph
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.93 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.22 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.93inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.03inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.22inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 12 PM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 12 PM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 11 AM; a base was reported in 17 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 400ft
- 11 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 17
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
0.07 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.03 in, in the hour to 12 PM.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Wettest hour
- 0.03in
- 12 PM
- Hours with some
- 6
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Clinton: 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 Clinton Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ClintonCWI
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/709 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US 30 ClintonSS0228
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River AT Le Claire LD14LECI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.7 mi away/679 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
De Witt 8.8 EIA-CN-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/649 ft/59 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Clinton No 1CLNI4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/564 ft/144 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 Clinton No 1 (CLNI4), 5.4 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Clinton Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Clinton Municipal Airport
- Davenport Municipal AirportDVN, 20 mi
- Dubuque Regional AirportDBQ, 44 mi
- Monticello Regional AirportMXO, 51 mi
- Muscatine Municipal AirportMUT, 53 mi
- Iowa City Municipal AirportIOW, 64 mi
- The Eastern Iowa AirportCID, 71 mi
- Washington Municipal AirportAWG, 79 mi
- Southeast Iowa Regional AirportBRL, 83 mi