Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Osceola Municipal Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Osceola Municipal Airport is 46° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Osceola Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 4,001 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 179° / 359° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from Osceola (I75), Osceola Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Osceola: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Osceola Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
OsceolaI75
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/1,110 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Osceola (US 34)ROSI4
Beside a road/5.7 mi away/1,096 ft/14 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lucas 2SSW - Stephens State Forest RAWSSSFI4
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/1,063 ft/47 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Osceola 0.3 EIA-CL-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/1,140 ft/30 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OsceolaOSEI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/1,122 ft/12 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Osceola (OSEI4), 7.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.