New Hampton (US 18)RNHI4
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/1,073 ft/28 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bassett until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bassett is 44° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Bassett, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 39 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
1.00 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bassett, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bassett, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
New Hampton (US 18)RNHI4
Beside a road/2.9 mi away/1,073 ft/28 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Charles CityCCY
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/1,116 ft/71 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1775GW1775
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/1,010 ft/35 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ionia 2WIONI4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.3 mi away/1,037 ft/8 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Charles City 1.2 ESEIA-FL-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/1,037 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.9 mi from Bassett, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,000 ft, overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,000 ft; visibility 7 mi.
44.6 F with a dew point of 44.6 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Charles City, 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.