Sioux CitySUX
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/1,102 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field, Iowa
Medium airport in Woodbury County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, and east central and southeast South Dakota. * 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.
49°
57°/45°
Overcast·
Feels like 42°·Fresh breeze 20 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field is 49° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
61%Humidity
99%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
49feels42
20mph
Today
Oct 15
5745
98%
18mph
Fri
Oct 16
5340
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
6029
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6639
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6742
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
7243
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7751
15%
12mph
49°
57°45°
53°40°
60°29°
66°39°
67°42°
72°43°
77°51°
As of 9:00 PM in Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 9 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 Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field
0.54 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
- 0.54in
- Last 3 days
- 0.54in
Visibility
How far you can see at Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- SUX
- ICAO
- KSUX
- IATA
- SUX
- Field elevation
- 1,098 ft
- Serves
- Sioux City
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- SUX
- Wind now
- From 310° at 22 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:52
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 9,002 ft | 150 ft | Concrete | 136° / 316° | 22 mph head, on 31 | 2 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 | 6,600 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 181° / 1° | 14 mph head, on 35 | 17 mph from the left |
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field, 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 now4 instruments
Beside a road/10.7 mi away/1,138 ft/40 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MilnervilleBKTI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.2 mi away/1,224 ft/126 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/31.3 mi away/1,119 ft/21 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Sioux City AirportSXGI4
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/1,086 ft/12 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sioux City 2.2 SEIA-WD-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,227 ft/129 ft above 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 Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sergeant Bluffcity, 1 mi
- Sioux Citycity, 7 mi
- Salixcity, 8 mi
- Bronsoncity, 9 mi
- Lawtoncity, 12 mi
- Sloancity, 14 mi
- Climbing Hillcommunity, 16 mi
- Hintoncity, 16 mi
- Movillecity, 17 mi
- Hornickcity, 19 mi
- Whitingcity, 22 mi
- Merrillcity, 23 mi
Airports near Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field
- Le Mars Municipal AirportLRJ, 28 mi
- Sioux County Regional AirportSXK, 42 mi
- Cherokee County Regional AirportCKP, 48 mi
- Denison Municipal AirportDNS, 59 mi
- Storm Lake Municipal AirportSLB, 60 mi
- Sheldon Regional AirportSHL, 63 mi
- Harlan Municipal AirportHNR, 78 mi
- Spencer Municipal AirportSPW, 80 mi