Red OakRDK
At an airfield/7.4 mi away/1,040 ft/29 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Emerson, Iowa
City in Mills County, Iowa* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 expected. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west central Iowa and east central, northeast, and southeast Nebraska. * 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. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
42°
54°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Light breeze 7 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Emerson until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Emerson is 42° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:34 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
68%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
42feels38
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5441
24mph
Sat
Oct 17
5831
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
6438
16mph
Mon
Oct 19
6642
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7046
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
7451
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7754
overcast
42°
54°41°
58°31°
64°38°
66°42°
70°46°
74°51°
77°54°
As of 8:00 PM in Emerson, Iowa.
Air quality
The air at Emerson
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Viking Lake State Park (IA), 19 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good18.8 mi
- Ozone20Good23 ppb18.8 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 24, good.
GoodModerate
- 24YesterdayOct 15
- 20TodayOct 16
- 30SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Emerson
None in the last 24 hours; 0.76 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.76in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Emerson, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Emerson, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Emerson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank838of 1,055
West Nishnabotna River 1 W RandolphRDPI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.7 mi away/942 ft/127 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5908FW5908
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.4 mi away/1,196 ft/127 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/22.0 mi away/1,060 ft/9 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Emerson 3.2 NEIA-MY-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/1,196 ft/127 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hastings 4 NEHSII4
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/1,050 ft/19 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Red Oak, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.4 mi from Emerson, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
42.8 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
The wind
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Red Oak, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hastings 4 NE (HSII4), 5.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Iowa
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Emerson
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.