Airports/Iowa/Grinnell Regional Airport

Grinnell Regional Airport, Iowa

Small airport in Poweshiek County, Iowa

51° 62°/54°

Overcast· Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NW

Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Grinnell Regional Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 62° today.

Now. Grinnell Regional Airport is 51° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph, gusting to 22 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 4 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.

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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

14Air quality

92%Humidity

99%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

51feels51

Today

Oct 15

6254

99%

17mph

Fri

Oct 16

5243

24%

23mph

Sat

Oct 17

5731

Sun

Oct 18

6437

14mph

Mon

Oct 19

6643

Tue

Oct 20

7045

Wed

Oct 21

7350

51°

62°54°

52°43°

57°31°

64°37°

66°43°

70°45°

73°50°

As of 9:00 PM in Grinnell Regional Airport, Iowa.

Air quality

The air at Grinnell Regional Airport

Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 49 miles off.

14Good

Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
Ozone12Good-

The days ahead

Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.

GoodModerate

20YesterdayOct 14
ModerateTodayOct 15
GoodFriOct 16
GoodSatOct 17

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Grinnell Regional Airport

0.30 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: 0.30in
Last 3 days: 0.30in

Visibility

How far you can see at Grinnell Regional Airport, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 7 miles Fri 10 AM.

Airfield

Code: GGI
ICAO: KGGI
IATA: -
Field elevation: 1,008 ft
Serves: Grinnell
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: GGI
Wind now: From 300° at 14 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:35

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
13 / 31	5,200 ft	75 ft	Concrete	135° / 315°	14 mph head, on 31	4 mph from the left

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

What is measuring near here

The 6 instruments nearest Grinnell 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

GrinnellGGI

At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,007 ft/1 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Grinnell (I-80)RGRI4

Beside a road/1.0 mi away/922 ft/86 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Red Rock DamRRMI4

At a dam/26.7 mi away/722 ft/286 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Des Moines 17 E54902

At a climate reference station/30.3 mi away/903 ft/105 ft below here