OttumwaOTM
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/846 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Hedrick until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hedrick is 46° and partly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Hedrick, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 37 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 7 miles Fri 10 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hedrick, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Hedrick, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
OttumwaOTM
At an airfield/8.7 mi away/846 ft/32 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sigourney (IA 92)RSGI4
Beside a road/11.2 mi away/663 ft/151 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW2804GW2804
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.3 mi away/751 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hedrick 4.0 ENEIA-KK-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/808 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OttumwaOTWI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/804 ft/10 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 11.2 mi from Hedrick, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:50 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
48.2 F with a dew point of 41.4 F, 77 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 15 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 103 mph.
At 663 ft above sea level, 2 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 29.21 inHg and the temperature at 56.6 F; it reports 48.2 F, 8.4 F colder than standard.
The full report of Sigourney (IA 92), in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
15 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.