Beside a road/11.2 mi away/955 ft/193 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Dexter, Iowa
City in Dallas County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29-32 expected and widespread frost. * 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.
40°
52°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Light breeze 5 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Dexter until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dexter is 40° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
87%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
40feels36
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5242
10%
22mph
Sat
Oct 17
5832
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6439
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6541
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6945
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7250
10%
Thu
Oct 22
7653
overcast
40°
52°42°
58°32°
64°39°
65°41°
69°45°
72°50°
76°53°
As of 11:00 PM in Dexter, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Dexter
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 30 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dexter
None in the last 24 hours; 0.74 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.74in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Dexter, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dexter, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Dexter, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank863of 1,055
PerryPRO
At an airfield/21.6 mi away/1,004 ft/144 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station WA2GTMWA2GTM
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.5 mi away/956 ft/192 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines River 4 WNW Saylorville ReservoirSAYI4
At a reservoir/30.6 mi away/896 ft/252 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Earlham 2.0 WIA-MD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/1,112 ft/36 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
AdelADXI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/961 ft/187 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Perry, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.6 mi from Dexter, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
36.0 F with a dew point of 35.0 F, 96 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 200 ft up.
The wind
From the west (280 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 38 mph.
The full report of Perry, 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 Dexter
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.