AlgonaAXA
At an airfield/8.6 mi away/1,210 ft/25 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Burt, Iowa
City in Kossuth County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Much of central 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.
44°
52°/41°
Overcast·
Feels like 37°·Moderate breeze 18 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Burt until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Burt is 44° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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.
0UV Low
18Air quality
93%Humidity
98%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
44feels37
18mph
Today
Oct 16
5241
10%
26mph
Sat
Oct 17
5932
17mph
Sun
Oct 18
6541
18mph
Mon
Oct 19
6644
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
6946
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7351
12%
Thu
Oct 22
7455
11%
44°
52°41°
59°32°
65°41°
66°44°
69°46°
73°51°
74°55°
As of 4:00 AM in Burt, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Burt
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 73 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good24.4 mi
- Ozone10Good16 ppb24.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- 28TodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Burt
0.94 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.94in
- Last 3 days
- 0.94in
Visibility
How far you can see at Burt, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Burt, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Burt, 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 now3 instruments
Rank169of 1,060
Algona (US 18)RALI4
Beside a road/11.9 mi away/1,106 ft/79 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.7 mi away/1,220 ft/35 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Burt 0.5 NWIA-KS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/1,180 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Algona 3 WALGI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.0 mi away/1,220 ft/35 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Algona, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.6 mi from Burt, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
Overcast at 1,400 ft; the ceiling is 1,400 ft; visibility 8 mi.
The air
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 1,400 ft.
The wind
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Algona, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Burt
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.