DenisonRDNI4
Beside a road/13.7 mi away/1,398 ft/255 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Dunlap until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dunlap is 44° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 4 PM. 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 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 3:00 AM in Dunlap, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
1.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dunlap, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dunlap, 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
DenisonRDNI4
Beside a road/13.7 mi away/1,398 ft/255 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
DenisonDNS
At an airfield/14.3 mi away/1,250 ft/107 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Soldier River at Pisgah06608500
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.3 mi away/1,037 ft/106 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station WX4TAZWX4TAZ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.3 mi away/1,219 ft/76 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dunlap 5.4 NNWIA-CF-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/1,411 ft/268 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DenisonDNSI4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.6 mi away/1,394 ft/251 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.3 mi from Dunlap, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,800 ft, scattered at 3,200 ft, broken at 4,000 ft; the ceiling is 4,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Denison, 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.