Temperature
54 F at 9 PM; 66 F at its warmest, 10 PM Wednesday, and 54 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
- Now
- 54F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 66F
- 10 PM Wednesday
- Lowest
- 54F
- 9 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 68° today.
Now. Muscatine Municipal Airport is 55° and overcast at 9 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 5 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 56°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Muscatine Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Muscatine (IA), 6 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 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.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 5,500 ft | 100 ft | Concrete | 58° / 238° | 6 mph head, on 24 | 19 mph from the right |
| 12 / 30 | 4,000 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 125° / 305° | 20 mph head, on 30 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Muscatine (MUT), Muscatine Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
54 F at 9 PM; 66 F at its warmest, 10 PM Wednesday, and 54 F at its coolest, 9 PM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 52 F, the air 94% saturated; the humidity ran from 83% at 12 AM to 100% at 4 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
17 mph from the northwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 19 mph, 7 PM, with a gust of 38 mph at 7 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
29.98 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.12 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 1 mile at 3 PM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
0.13 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.04 in, in the hour to 3 PM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Muscatine: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Muscatine 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
MuscatineMUT
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/543 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
92 @ Muscatine/Ms RiverSS0693
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Iowa River AT Coralville DamCRVI4
At a dam/31.3 mi away/682 ft/135 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MuscatineMCTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.6 mi away/554 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Letts 2.3 SEIA-LS-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/696 ft/149 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Muscatine (MCTI4), 4.6 miles from here, read 9 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.