Centerville (IA 2)RCNI4
Beside a road/19.2 mi away/968 ft/132 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Allerton until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 65° today.
Now. Allerton is 53° and overcast at 10 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 4 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Allerton, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 59 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Allerton, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Allerton, 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
Centerville (IA 2)RCNI4
Beside a road/19.2 mi away/968 ft/132 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lucas 2SSW - Stephens State Forest RAWSSSFI4
A remote fire weather station/20.8 mi away/1,063 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
CharitonCNC
At an airfield/21.6 mi away/1,047 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
AllertonALRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.1 mi away/1,106 ft/6 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Allerton 4.5 WSWIA-WY-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,081 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.6 mi from Allerton, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,600 ft, broken at 2,000 ft, overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.8 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Chariton, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Allerton (ALRI4), 0.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.