Temperature
55 F at 10 PM; 66 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 54 F at its coolest, 8 PM.
- Now
- 55F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 66F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 54F
- 8 PM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Oskaloosa Municipal Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Mahaska County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Much of 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.
54°
68°/58°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Oskaloosa Municipal Airport until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 68° today.
Now. Oskaloosa Municipal Airport is 54° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 46° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. 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, 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
85%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
54feels54
15mph
Today
Oct 15
6858
96%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5545
12%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6033
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6839
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
7045
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7446
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7751
overcast
54°
68°58°
55°45°
60°33°
68°39°
70°45°
74°46°
77°51°
As of 10:00 PM in Oskaloosa Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Oskaloosa Municipal Airport
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 45 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
- Ozone16Good-
The days ahead
Highest 55, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 14
- 55TodayOct 15
- 29FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Oskaloosa Municipal Airport
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Last 3 days
- 0.03in
Visibility
How far you can see at Oskaloosa Municipal Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- OOA
- ICAO
- KOOA
- IATA
- OOA
- Field elevation
- 841 ft
- Serves
- Cedar
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- OOA
- Wind now
- From 310° at 17 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:15
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 unlit | 1,926 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 44° / 224° | 1 mph head, on 22 | 17 mph from the right |
| 13 / 31 | 4,012 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 135° / 315° | 17 mph head, on 31 | 1 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Oskaloosa (OOA), Oskaloosa Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 50 F, the air 85% saturated; the humidity ran from 80% at 11 PM Wednesday to 97% at 3 PM.
- Dew point now
- 50F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 85%
- Humidity, range
- 80 to 97%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
17 mph from the northwest at 10 PM; at its strongest 22 mph, 5 PM, with a gust of 36 mph at 4 PM.
- Now
- 17mph
- from the northwest
- Strongest
- 22mph
- 5 PM
- Highest gust
- 36mph
- 4 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.09 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.09inHg
- 10 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.04inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- -0.02inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 1 miles at 2 PM; 7 miles now.
- Now
- 7mi
- Lowest
- 1mi
- 2 PM
- 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 700 ft at 2 PM; a base was reported in 2 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 700ft
- 2 PM
- Hours with a base reported
- 2
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
Oskaloosa: 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 Oskaloosa Municipal 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
measured daily2 instruments
Oskaloosa 0.7 SWIA-MH-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.1 mi away/816 ft/25 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OskaloosaOSKI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.2 mi away/830 ft/11 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Oskaloosa Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Fremontcity, 3 mi
- Keomah Villagecity, 5 mi
- Kirkvillecity, 6 mi
- Rose Hillcity, 7 mi
- University Parkcity, 8 mi
- Eddyvillecity, 9 mi
- Oskaloosacity, 9 mi
- Chillicothecity, 10 mi
- Beaconcity, 10 mi
- Hedrickcity, 10 mi
- Deltacity, 11 mi
- Hayesvillecity, 13 mi
Airports near Oskaloosa Municipal Airport
- Ottumwa Regional AirportOTM, 9 mi
- Pella Municipal AirportPEA, 26 mi
- Fairfield Municipal AirportFFL, 29 mi
- Knoxville Municipal AirportOXV, 33 mi
- Grinnell Regional AirportGGI, 36 mi
- Newton Municipal AirportTNU, 41 mi
- Washington Municipal AirportAWG, 43 mi
- Centerville Municipal AirportTVK, 43 mi