IndependenceIIB
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/965 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Independence Municipal Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Buchanan 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.
50°
60°/51°
Overcast·
Feels like 44°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Independence Municipal Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Independence Municipal Airport is 50° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 3 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 53°. Rain is likely tomorrow (53%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
92%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
50feels44
13%
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6051
100%
16mph
Fri
Oct 16
5341
53%
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
17mph
Mon
Oct 19
6642
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7043
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7348
overcast
50°
60°51°
53°41°
57°30°
64°38°
66°42°
70°43°
73°48°
As of 9:00 PM in Independence Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Independence Municipal Airport
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 23 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good18.9 mi
- Ozone-15 ppb24.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- 39TodayOct 15
- 23FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Independence Municipal Airport
0.57 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
- 0.57in
- Last 3 days
- 0.57in
Visibility
How far you can see at Independence Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- IIB
- ICAO
- KIIB
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 979 ft
- Serves
- Independence
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- IIB
- Wind now
- From 310° at 16 mph, read 15 Oct, 21:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 / 36 | 5,500 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 179° / 359° | 10 mph head, on 36 | 12 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Independence 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
Urbana (I-380)RURI4
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/991 ft/12 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 0.9 WNWIA-BC-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/922 ft/57 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Stanley 4 WSNYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/14.6 mi away/1,129 ft/150 ft above 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 Stanley 4 W (SNYI4), 14.6 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Independence Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Independencecity, 3 mi
- Jesupcity, 6 mi
- Rowleycity, 8 mi
- Brandoncity, 10 mi
- Quasquetoncity, 11 mi
- Winthropcity, 11 mi
- Hazletoncity, 11 mi
- Dunkertoncity, 13 mi
- Fairbankcity, 14 mi
- Gilbertvillecity, 14 mi
- Raymondcity, 14 mi
- Walkercity, 14 mi
Airports near Independence Municipal Airport
- Oelwein Municipal AirportOLZ, 16 mi
- Vinton Veterans Memorial AirparkVTI, 17 mi
- Waterloo Regional AirportALO, 24 mi
- The Eastern Iowa AirportCID, 41 mi
- Monticello Regional AirportMXO, 43 mi
- Northeast Iowa Regional AirportCCY, 54 mi
- Marshalltown Municipal AirportMIW, 55 mi
- Decorah Municipal AirportDEH, 58 mi