DubuqueDBQ
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/1,079 ft/160 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bernard, Iowa
City in Dubuque County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northwest Illinois and east central, northeast, and southeast Iowa. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
41°
53°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Light breeze 6 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bernard until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bernard is 41° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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 Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
82%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
41feels37
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5343
30%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5631
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
6238
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6539
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6743
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7046
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7350
overcast
41°
53°43°
56°31°
62°38°
65°39°
67°43°
70°46°
73°50°
As of 11:00 PM in Bernard, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Bernard
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Clinton (IA), 46 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 22, good.
GoodModerate
- 22YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bernard
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.07in
- Last 3 days
- 0.46in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 15%
Visibility
How far you can see at Bernard, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bernard, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bernard, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank1of 1,055
Dubuque (US 20)RDBI4
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/820 ft/99 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW6257FW6257
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.7 mi away/889 ft/30 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Dubuque LD11DLDI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.8 mi away/623 ft/296 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bernard 0.6 ESEIA-DB-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/919 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Dubuque #3DUBI4
At a cooperative observer's station/7.7 mi away/1,052 ft/133 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Dubuque, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.6 mi from Bernard, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
40.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Dubuque, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Dubuque #3 (DUBI4), 7.7 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Bernard
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.