Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Forest City Municipal Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Forest City Municipal Airport is 44° and overcast at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Forest City Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 75 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.94 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 | 2,707 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 95° / 275° | 13 mph head, on 27 | 1 mph from the right |
| 15 / 33 | 5,796 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 155° / 335° | 7 mph head, on 33 | 11 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Forest City (FXY), Forest City Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 10 PM Thursday; 52 F at its warmest, 8 AM Thursday, and 45 F at its coolest, 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 37 F, the air 76% saturated; the humidity ran from 74% at 9 PM Thursday to 96% at 5 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
12 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 18 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.08 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.05 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 6 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 400 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.05 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Forest City: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Forest City 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 now2 instruments
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,229 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/9.5 mi away/1,270 ft/41 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Forest City 0.7 NWIA-WN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/1,259 ft/30 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Forest City 2 NNEFSCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/1,263 ft/34 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.