Tipton (I-80)RTPI4
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/663 ft/56 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Durant until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Durant is 53° and mostly cloudy at 5 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:13 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 PM in Durant, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 1, good, led by nitrogen dioxide. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Muscatine (IA), 14 miles off.
Yesterday measured 16, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 0.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Durant, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Durant, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Tipton (I-80)RTPI4
Beside a road/11.7 mi away/663 ft/56 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW3396DW3396
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.4 mi away/735 ft/16 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Quad CitiesDVN
At an airfield/16.2 mi away/751 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mississippi River AT Le Claire LD14LECI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.4 mi away/679 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Durant 0.5 WIA-CD-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/709 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Muscatine 2 NMSTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.4 mi away/699 ft/20 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.2 mi from Durant, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:52 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,800 ft, broken at 4,600 ft, overcast at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 68 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,800 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 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 Muscatine 2 N (MSTI4), 11.4 miles from here, read 16 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.