Red OakRDK
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,040 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Red Oak Municipal Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Montgomery County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
52°
60°/52°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 52°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Red Oak Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Red Oak Municipal Airport is 52° and partly cloudy at 8 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 17 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:38 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
87%Humidity
45%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
52feels52
17mph
Today
Oct 15
6052
100%
17mph
Fri
Oct 16
5341
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5930
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6738
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6944
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7445
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7752
10%
52°
60°52°
53°41°
59°30°
67°38°
69°44°
74°45°
77°52°
As of 8:00 PM in Red Oak Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Red Oak Municipal Airport
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 12 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good11.5 mi
- Ozone11Good16 ppb11.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 14
- 44TodayOct 15
- 21FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Red Oak Municipal Airport
0.69 in in the last 24 hours, 0.72 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.69in
- Last 3 days
- 0.72in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 96%
Visibility
How far you can see at Red Oak Municipal Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- RDK
- ICAO
- KRDK
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 1,045 ft
- Serves
- Red Oak
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- RDK
- Wind now
- From 330° at 18 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,100 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 58° / 238° | 1 mph head, on 05 | 18 mph from the left |
| 14 / 32 unlit | 2,050 ft | 210 ft | Turf | 141° / 321° | 18 mph head, on 32 | 3 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 | 2,901 ft | 60 ft | Concrete | 174° / 354° | 16 mph head, on 35 | 7 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Red Oak 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
Beside a road/14.5 mi away/1,060 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Nishnabotna River 1 W RandolphRDPI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.2 mi away/942 ft/103 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Red OakROKI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/1,073 ft/28 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Red Oak 0.2 WIA-MY-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/1,033 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Red Oak Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Red Oak Municipal Airport
- Shenandoah Municipal AirportSDA, 20 mi
- Schenck FieldICL, 23 mi
- Atlantic Municipal AirportAIO, 30 mi
- Council Bluffs Municipal AirportCBF, 31 mi
- Harlan Municipal AirportHNR, 40 mi
- Creston Municipal AirportCSQ, 47 mi
- Audubon County AirportADU, 51 mi
- Denison Municipal AirportDNS, 68 mi