Beside a road/11.0 mi away/676 ft/45 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Dixon is 52° and overcast at 12 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 1 PM. 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:11 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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Dixon, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 11, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Davenport (IA), 18 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.21 in in the last 24 hours, 0.23 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 1 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dixon, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dixon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/676 ft/45 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW0281GW0281
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/770 ft/49 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Quad CitiesDVN
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/751 ft/30 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Le Claire LD14LECI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.8 mi away/679 ft/42 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dixon 5.5 SSEIA-ST-54
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/734 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LowdenLWDI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.6 mi away/738 ft/17 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.1 mi from Dixon, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,400 ft, overcast at 2,000 ft; the ceiling is 2,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 47.0 F, 86 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,400 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Quad Cities, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lowden (LWDI4), 11.6 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. 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.