MovilleRSCI4
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/1,187 ft/48 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Climbing Hill until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Climbing Hill is 46° and mostly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Climbing Hill, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, WTN1 (NE), 18 miles off.
Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.59 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 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Climbing Hill, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Climbing Hill, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
MovilleRSCI4
Beside a road/10.1 mi away/1,187 ft/48 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sioux CitySUX
At an airfield/15.6 mi away/1,102 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/17.3 mi away/1,119 ft/20 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.5 mi away/1,400 ft/261 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW2980FW2980
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/1,103 ft/36 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Holly Springs 1NWHLYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.9 mi away/1,066 ft/73 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sloan 0.2 WIA-WD-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.2 mi away/1,071 ft/68 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.6 mi from Climbing Hill, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,000 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 31 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Sioux City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Holly Springs 1NW (HLYI4), 3.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.