Airports/Iowa/Spencer Municipal Airport

Spencer Municipal Airport, Iowa

Small airport in Clay County, Iowa

45° 55°/42°

Mostly cloudy· Feels like 39°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NW

Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Spencer Municipal Airport until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.

Now. Spencer Municipal Airport is 45° and mostly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 27°.

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 day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

18Air quality

73%Humidity

75%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

45feels39

15mph

Today

Oct 15

5542

96%

17mph

Fri

Oct 16

5137

25mph

Sat

Oct 17

5727

20mph

Sun

Oct 18

6537

20mph

Mon

Oct 19

6639

Tue

Oct 20

7141

Wed

Oct 21

7548

15%

45°

55°42°

51°37°

57°27°

65°37°

66°39°

71°41°

75°48°

As of 9:00 PM in Spencer Municipal Airport, Iowa.

Air quality

The air at Spencer Municipal Airport

Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 74 miles off.

18Good

Ozone18Good-

The days ahead

Yesterday measured 14, good.

GoodModerate

14YesterdayOct 14

Smoke, the next 41 hours

No smoke near the ground through Sat 1 PM.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Spencer Municipal Airport

0.74 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.74in
Last 3 days: 0.74in

Visibility

How far you can see at Spencer Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours

Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 3 AM.

Airfield

Code: SPW
ICAO: KSPW
IATA: SPW
Field elevation: 1,339 ft
Serves: Spencer
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: SPW
Wind now: From 300° at 15 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:53

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
12 / 30	6,001 ft	100 ft	Concrete	126° / 306°	15 mph head, on 30	2 mph from the left
18 / 36	5,100 ft	75 ft	Concrete	185° / 5°	6 mph head, on 36	14 mph from the left

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

What is measuring near here

The 4 instruments nearest Spencer Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.

measured now2 instruments

SpencerSPW

At an airfield/0.4 mi away/1,322 ft/17 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Spencer (US 18)RSPI4

Beside a road/6.3 mi away/1,483 ft/144 ft above here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

measured daily2 instruments

Spencer 0.6 WIA-CY-5

In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/1,326 ft/13 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth

Spencer 1 N3SE