Temperature
50 F at 10 PM; 61 F at its warmest, 12 AM, and 50 F at its coolest, 10 PM.
- Now
- 50F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 61F
- 12 AM
- Lowest
- 50F
- 10 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Monticello Regional Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Jones 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°
61°/51°
Overcast·
Feels like 50°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Monticello Regional Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Monticello Regional Airport is 50° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 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 54°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 south-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
7Air quality
100%Humidity
100%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
50feels50
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6151
100%
13mph
Fri
Oct 16
5441
35%
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
5730
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6437
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6640
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7042
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7346
overcast
50°
61°51°
54°41°
57°30°
64°37°
66°40°
70°42°
73°46°
As of 11:00 PM in Monticello Regional Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Monticello Regional Airport
Index 7, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Iowa City (IA), 44 miles off.
7Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)7Good-
- Ozone-14 ppb19.2 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 14
- 38TodayOct 15
- 25FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Monticello Regional Airport
0.43 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.43in
- Last 3 days
- 0.43in
Visibility
How far you can see at Monticello Regional Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 10 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- MXO
- ICAO
- KMXO
- IATA
- MXO
- Field elevation
- 832 ft
- Serves
- Monticello
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- MXO
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 / 27 unlit | 2,300 ft | 90 ft | Grass | 90° / 270° | - | - |
| 15 / 33 | 4,400 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 154° / 334° | - | - |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Monticello Muni (MXO), Monticello Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 49 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 86% at 3 AM to 100% at 6 AM.
- Dew point now
- 49F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 96%
- Humidity, range
- 86 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
11 mph from the west northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 17 mph, 8 PM, with a gust of 32 mph at 8 PM.
- Now
- 11mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 17mph
- 8 PM
- Highest gust
- 32mph
- 8 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
29.96 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.15 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 29.96inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.07inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.15inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 0.5 miles at 3 PM, under a mile for 1 hour; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 0.5mi
- 3 PM
- Hours under a mile
- 1
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 5 AM; a base was reported in 23 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 200ft
- 5 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 23
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
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
Monticello Muni: 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 Monticello 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/835 ft/3 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Anamosa (US 151)RCRI4
Beside a road/13.6 mi away/931 ft/99 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mississippi River AT Dubuque LD11DLDI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/33.3 mi away/623 ft/209 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Monticello 0.2 SIA-JN-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/837 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MonticelloMCLI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/812 ft/20 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 Mississippi River AT Dubuque LD11 (DLDI4), 33.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Monticello Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Monticellocity, 2 mi
- Center Junctioncommunity, 8 mi
- Cascadecity, 9 mi
- Hopkintoncity, 10 mi
- Anamosacity, 10 mi
- Onslowcity, 11 mi
- Worthingtoncity, 12 mi
- Stone Citycommunity, 12 mi
- Prairieburgcity, 13 mi
- Wyomingcity, 14 mi
- Morleycity, 15 mi
- Olincity, 15 mi
Airports near Monticello Regional Airport
- Dubuque Regional AirportDBQ, 26 mi
- The Eastern Iowa AirportCID, 36 mi
- Independence Municipal AirportIIB, 43 mi
- Vinton Veterans Memorial AirparkVTI, 44 mi
- Iowa City Municipal AirportIOW, 45 mi
- Clinton Municipal AirportCWI, 51 mi
- Davenport Municipal AirportDVN, 51 mi
- Oelwein Municipal AirportOLZ, 52 mi