Newton MuniTNU
At an airfield/6.6 mi away/942 ft/58 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Kellogg until 9 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 52° after 62° today.
Now. Kellogg is 51° and overcast at 11 PM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 15 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 45° 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 74°, 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 32°.
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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Kellogg, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Des Moines (IA), 41 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.36 in in the last 24 hours, 0.38 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Sat 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kellogg, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Kellogg, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.6 miles away.
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Newton MuniTNU
At an airfield/6.6 mi away/942 ft/58 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
GrinnellRGII4
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/868 ft/16 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW8097CW8097
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.0 mi away/1,012 ft/128 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Prairie City 3SW - Neal Smith RAWSNSWI4
A remote fire weather station/20.9 mi away/892 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Des Moines 17 E54902
At a climate reference station/22.5 mi away/903 ft/19 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Newton 0.9 WNWIA-JS-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/943 ft/59 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grinnell 3 SWGRII4
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/974 ft/90 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.6 mi from Kellogg, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,800 ft, broken at 4,600 ft, overcast at 5,500 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,800 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 26 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Newton Muni, 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.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.