OttumwaOTM
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/846 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Ottumwa Regional Airport, Iowa
Medium airport in Wapello County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 expected. * WHERE...Wapello County. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * 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.
47°
54°/45°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 41°·Gentle breeze 13 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Ottumwa Regional Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ottumwa Regional Airport is 47° and partly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:21 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.
0UV Low
23Air quality
83%Humidity
62%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
47feels41
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5445
18%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5934
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6638
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6942
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7246
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7549
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7755
10%
47°
54°45°
59°34°
66°38°
69°42°
72°46°
75°49°
77°55°
As of 4:00 AM in Ottumwa Regional Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Ottumwa Regional Airport
Index 23, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 37 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
- 29TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ottumwa Regional Airport
0.06 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.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Last 3 days
- 0.06in
Visibility
How far you can see at Ottumwa Regional Airport, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- OTM
- ICAO
- KOTM
- IATA
- OTM
- Field elevation
- 845 ft
- Serves
- Ottumwa
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- OTM
- Wind now
- -
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 4,601 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 45° / 225° | - | - |
| 13 / 31 | 6,001 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 135° / 315° | - | - |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Ottumwa Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Ottumwa (US 63)ROTI4
Beside a road/6.4 mi away/643 ft/202 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ottumwa 2.0 NNEIA-WP-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/821 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OttumwaOTWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/804 ft/41 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 Ottumwa Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Kirkvillecity, 4 mi
- Chillicothecity, 4 mi
- Ottumwacity, 6 mi
- Fremontcity, 7 mi
- Hedrickcity, 9 mi
- Eddyvillecity, 10 mi
- Agencycity, 11 mi
- Martinsburgcity, 11 mi
- Keomah Villagecity, 14 mi
- Blakesburgcity, 14 mi
- Rose Hillcity, 15 mi
- Hayesvillecity, 15 mi
Airports near Ottumwa Regional Airport
- Oskaloosa Municipal AirportOOA, 9 mi
- Fairfield Municipal AirportFFL, 25 mi
- Pella Municipal AirportPEA, 33 mi
- Knoxville Municipal AirportOXV, 37 mi
- Centerville Municipal AirportTVK, 38 mi
- Washington Municipal AirportAWG, 42 mi
- Grinnell Regional AirportGGI, 44 mi
- Chariton Municipal AirportCNC, 48 mi