Pacific JunctionRPJI4
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/956 ft/13 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Bartlett until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bartlett is 48° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:36 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Bartlett, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 18 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.51 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bartlett, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bartlett, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Pacific JunctionRPJI4
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/956 ft/13 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
West Nishnabotna River 1 W RandolphRDPI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/942 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5908FW5908
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/1,196 ft/253 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ShenandoahSDA
At an airfield/22.1 mi away/971 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pacific Junction 2.4 ESEIA-ML-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/950 ft/7 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GlenwoodGLNI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.9 mi away/1,063 ft/120 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.1 mi from Bartlett, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:30 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 6,500 ft; the ceiling is 6,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,500 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Shenandoah, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.