Beside a road/5.4 mi away/1,138 ft/32 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Hinton until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hinton is 46° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:42 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Hinton, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Sioux City (IA), 7 miles off.
Yesterday measured 14, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.50 in in the last 24 hours, 0.55 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hinton, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Hinton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/5.4 mi away/1,138 ft/32 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/1,283 ft/113 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Le MarsLRJ
At an airfield/12.2 mi away/1,194 ft/24 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
MilnervilleBKTI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.3 mi away/1,224 ft/54 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/30.0 mi away/1,119 ft/51 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Hinton 5.9 ESEIA-PL-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/1,296 ft/126 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Le MarsLEMI4
At a cooperative observer's station/13.1 mi away/1,280 ft/110 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.2 mi from Hinton, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
Overcast at 4,100 ft; the ceiling is 4,100 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
At 1,194 ft above sea level, 4 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 28.65 inHg and the temperature at 54.7 F; the station's altimeter setting of 30.23 inHg means its barometer reads 28.95 inHg.
The full report of Le Mars, 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.