Spencer (US 18)RSPI4
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/1,483 ft/165 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Gillett Grove until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 51° today.
Now. Gillett Grove is 43° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:24 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Gillett Grove, Iowa.
Precipitation
0.87 in in the last 24 hours, 0.89 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Gillett Grove, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Gillett Grove, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Spencer (US 18)RSPI4
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/1,483 ft/165 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
SpencerSPW
At an airfield/13.7 mi away/1,322 ft/4 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7399FW7399
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/1,449 ft/131 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dickens 4.6 SSEIA-CY-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.5 mi away/1,407 ft/89 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sioux Rapids 4 ESXRI4
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/1,378 ft/60 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.7 mi from Gillett Grove, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:09 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 1,500 ft, broken at 2,400 ft, overcast at 3,100 ft; the ceiling is 2,400 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,500 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 44 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 44 mph.
The full report of Spencer, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Sioux Rapids 4 E (SXRI4), 8.6 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 06:00. 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.