AmesAMW
At an airfield/6.3 mi away/919 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Huxley until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 61° today.
Now. Huxley is 49° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 4 AM, with some cloud. 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 52°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Huxley, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 25 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.86 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Huxley, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Huxley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
AmesAMW
At an airfield/6.3 mi away/919 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
AmesS2031
At a soil climate station/9.2 mi away/1,073 ft/62 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Ames (I-35)RAMI4
Beside a road/9.4 mi away/1,027 ft/16 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Ames ScanAMMI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.6 mi away/1,073 ft/62 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW3016DW3016
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/986 ft/25 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/28.8 mi away/903 ft/108 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Huxley 0.5 NIA-SR-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/1,007 ft/4 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ames 5 SEAESI4
At a cooperative observer's station/4.8 mi away/863 ft/148 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.3 mi from Huxley, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 5,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 5,500 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Ames, in 6 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.