Mississippi River AT Bellevue LD12BLVI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/587 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Bellevue until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 63° today.
Now. Bellevue is 52° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 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 south-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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Bellevue, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.54 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 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bellevue, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bellevue, 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
Mississippi River AT Bellevue LD12BLVI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.8 mi away/587 ft/55 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DubuqueDBQ
At an airfield/17.3 mi away/1,079 ft/437 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/18.5 mi away/823 ft/181 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW9979DW9979
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.7 mi away/638 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bellevue 0.3 SSWIA-JC-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/634 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bellevue LD 12BLVI4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.8 mi away/587 ft/55 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.3 mi from Bellevue, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,600 ft; the ceiling is 1,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Dubuque, 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.