Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Newton Municipal Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Newton Municipal Airport is 50° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° 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 Thursday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Newton Municipal Airport, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 4 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 / 32 | 5,600 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 141° / 321° | 17 mph head, on 32 | None |
Measured here
Every hour from Newton Muni (TNU), Newton Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
52 F at 10 PM Thursday; 63 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 52 F at its coolest, 5 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 52 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 96% at 7 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
18 mph from the northwest at 10 PM Thursday; at its strongest 20 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 39 mph at 10 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.10 inHg at 10 PM Thursday, rising 0.05 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.8 miles at 1 PM Thursday, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 22 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Newton Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Newton Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Newton MuniTNU
At an airfield/0.3 mi away/942 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Colfax - I-80RCFI4
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/788 ft/165 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/14.3 mi away/892 ft/61 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/15.9 mi away/903 ft/50 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Newton 0.9 WNWIA-JS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/943 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grinnell 3 SWGRII4
At a cooperative observer's station/15.2 mi away/974 ft/21 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.