SB Copper CreekIA094
Beside a road/1.6 mi away/879 ft/133 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Centerville until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 68° today.
Now. Centerville is 54° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 33°.
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 day is 11 hours 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Centerville, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 45 miles off.
Highest 55, moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 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 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Centerville, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Centerville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
SB Copper CreekIA094
Beside a road/1.6 mi away/879 ft/133 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CentervilleTVK
At an airfield/3.6 mi away/1,027 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lucas 2SSW - Stephens State Forest RAWSSSFI4
A remote fire weather station/36.5 mi away/1,063 ft/51 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CentervilleCNTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.4 mi away/942 ft/70 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Centerville 0.7 NWIA-AP-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/978 ft/34 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.6 mi from Centerville, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,200 ft, broken at 2,800 ft, overcast at 4,500 ft; the ceiling is 2,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,200 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Centerville, 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.