Sidney (I-29/IA 2)RSDI4
Beside a road/8.7 mi away/942 ft/21 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Hamburg until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hamburg is 44° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 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 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:36 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.
As of 8:00 PM in Hamburg, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Weeping Water (NE), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 9, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 PM, lowest 8 miles Sun 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hamburg, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hamburg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sidney (I-29/IA 2)RSDI4
Beside a road/8.7 mi away/942 ft/21 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
ShenandoahSDA
At an airfield/16.2 mi away/971 ft/50 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
West Nishnabotna River 1 W RandolphRDPI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.7 mi away/942 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW5908FW5908
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.4 mi away/1,196 ft/275 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Riverton 0.2 WSWIA-FM-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/940 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RandolphRANI4
At a cooperative observer's station/18.4 mi away/981 ft/60 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.2 mi from Hamburg, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:50 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 33.8 F, 66 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 43 mph.
The full report of Shenandoah, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Randolph (RANI4), 18.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. 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.