PlainfieldRPFI4
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/965 ft/75 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Frederika until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Frederika is 47° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 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 Wednesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 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 2 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Frederika, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.97 in in the last 24 hours, 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Frederika, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Frederika, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
PlainfieldRPFI4
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/965 ft/75 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Charles CityCCY
At an airfield/20.4 mi away/1,116 ft/76 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW1782FW1782
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.2 mi away/971 ft/69 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tripoli 0.5 SIA-BM-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/1,053 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
New HamptonNHPI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/1,155 ft/115 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.4 mi from Frederika, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Charles City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at New Hampton (NHPI4), 11.3 miles from here, read 15 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.