Temperature
48 F at 12 AM; 56 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 48 F at its coolest, 12 AM.
- Now
- 48F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 56F
- 12 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 48F
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Shenandoah Municipal Airport, Iowa
Small airport in Fremont 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.
47°
53°/42°
Overcast·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Shenandoah Municipal Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Shenandoah Municipal Airport is 47° and overcast at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:35 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
66%Humidity
97%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
47feels43
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
5342
23mph
Sat
Oct 17
5931
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6738
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6945
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7446
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7853
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7857
13%
47°
53°42°
59°31°
67°38°
69°45°
74°46°
78°53°
78°57°
As of 1:00 AM in Shenandoah Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Shenandoah Municipal Airport
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 24 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good24.4 mi
- Ozone19Good18 ppb24.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
GoodModerate
- 34YesterdayOct 15
- 21TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Shenandoah Municipal Airport
0.51 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.51in
- Last 3 days
- 0.51in
Visibility
How far you can see at Shenandoah Municipal Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- SDA
- ICAO
- KSDA
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 971 ft
- Serves
- Shenandoah
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- SDA
- Wind now
- From 310° at 8 mph, read 16 Oct, 00:30
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 5,000 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 43° / 223° | 0 mph head, on 04 | 8 mph from the left |
| 12 / 30 | 3,439 ft | 75 ft | Concrete | 125° / 305° | 8 mph head, on 30 | 1 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Shenandoah (SDA), Shenandoah Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 37 F, the air 66% saturated; the humidity ran from 60% at 10 PM Thursday to 100% at 4 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 37F
- 12 AM
- Humidity now
- 66%
- Humidity, range
- 60 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
9 mph from the west northwest at 12 AM; at its strongest 20 mph, 10 PM Thursday, with a gust of 33 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 9mph
- from the west northwest
- Strongest
- 20mph
- 10 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 33mph
- 10 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.28 inHg at 12 AM, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.24 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.28inHg
- 12 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.05inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.24inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 2 miles at 3 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 2mi
- 3 AM Thursday
- 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 1,300 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,300ft
- 4 AM Thursday
- Hours with a base reported
- 22
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
Shenandoah: 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 Shenandoah Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
ShenandoahSDA
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/971 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
West Nishnabotna River 1 W RandolphRDPI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.1 mi away/942 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sidney (I-29/IA 2)RSDI4
Beside a road/19.8 mi away/942 ft/29 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Shenandoah 0.3 SIA-PG-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/1,017 ft/46 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ShenandoahSDHI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/958 ft/13 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 Shenandoah (SDHI4), 4.0 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 Shenandoah Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Shenandoah Municipal Airport
- Red Oak Municipal AirportRDK, 20 mi
- Schenck FieldICL, 20 mi
- Council Bluffs Municipal AirportCBF, 39 mi
- Atlantic Municipal AirportAIO, 49 mi
- Harlan Municipal AirportHNR, 58 mi
- Creston Municipal AirportCSQ, 58 mi
- Audubon County AirportADU, 70 mi
- Lamoni Municipal AirportLWD, 80 mi