Temperature
48 F at 9 PM; 54 F at its warmest, 3 AM, and 48 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 48F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 54F
- 3 AM
- Lowest
- 48F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Harlan Municipal Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Shelby County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
48°
57°/50°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 42°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Harlan Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Harlan Municipal Airport is 48° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 2 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% 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
21Air quality
71%Humidity
74%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
48feels42
15mph
Today
Oct 15
5750
100%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5140
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
5729
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6643
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7144
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7551
11%
48°
57°50°
51°40°
57°29°
64°38°
66°43°
71°44°
75°51°
As of 9:00 PM in Harlan Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Harlan Municipal Airport
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 35 miles off.
21Good
- Ozone21Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 17, good.
GoodModerate
- 17YesterdayOct 14
- 31TodayOct 15
- 24FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Harlan Municipal Airport
1.05 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
- 1.05in
- Last 3 days
- 1.05in
Visibility
How far you can see at Harlan Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 8 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
- HNR
- ICAO
- KHNR
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,231 ft
- Serves
- Harlan
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- HNR
- Wind now
- From 320° at 16 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 unlit | 1,693 ft | 120 ft | Grass | 37° / 217° | 4 mph head, on 03 | 16 mph from the left |
| 15 / 33 | 4,100 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 156° / 336° | 15 mph head, on 33 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Harlan (HNR), Harlan Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 39 F, the air 71% saturated; the humidity ran from 71% at 9 PM to 100% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 39F
- 9 PM
- Humidity now
- 71%
- Humidity, range
- 71 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
17 mph from the northwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 21 mph, 8 PM, with a gust of 35 mph at 7 PM.
- Now
- 17mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 21mph
- 8 PM
- Highest gust
- 35mph
- 7 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.21 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.10 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.21inHg
- 9 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.08inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.10inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 1 miles at 7 AM; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 1mi
- 7 AM
- 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 300 ft at 5 AM; a base was reported in 24 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- 4,600ft
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 5 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 24
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
1.05 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.37 in, in the hour to 11 AM.
- Last 24 hours
- 1.05in
- Wettest hour
- 0.37in
- 11 AM
- Hours with some
- 11
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Harlan: 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 Harlan 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
HarlanHNR
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,194 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Avoca (I-80)RAVI4
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/1,237 ft/6 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Irwin 3 ESEIRWI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.1 mi away/1,322 ft/91 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kirkman 1.0 SEIA-SH-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.3 mi away/1,284 ft/53 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OaklandOAKI4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.9 mi away/1,188 ft/43 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 Oakland (OAKI4), 18.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Harlan Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Corleycommunity, 1 mi
- Harlancity, 5 mi
- Tennantcity, 5 mi
- Avocacity, 7 mi
- Shelbycity, 8 mi
- Walnutcity, 9 mi
- Westphaliacity, 10 mi
- Portsmouthcity, 10 mi
- Jacksonvillecommunity, 11 mi
- Kirkmancity, 11 mi
- Persiacity, 12 mi
- Panamacity, 12 mi
Airports near Harlan Municipal Airport
- Atlantic Municipal AirportAIO, 19 mi
- Audubon County AirportADU, 23 mi
- Denison Municipal AirportDNS, 28 mi
- Council Bluffs Municipal AirportCBF, 31 mi
- Red Oak Municipal AirportRDK, 40 mi
- Arthur N Neu AirportCIN, 43 mi
- Shenandoah Municipal AirportSDA, 58 mi
- Schenck FieldICL, 62 mi