92 @ Muscatine/Ms RiverSS0693
Beside a road/3.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Kent Estates until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kent Estates is 56° and overcast at 1 AM. The dew point is 47°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the west-northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 1:00 AM in Kent Estates, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Muscatine (IA), 3 miles off.
Yesterday measured 29, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.12 in in the last 24 hours, 0.22 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kent Estates, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kent Estates, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
92 @ Muscatine/Ms RiverSS0693
Beside a road/3.3 mi away/-/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
MuscatineMUT
At an airfield/7.7 mi away/543 ft/149 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW8567FW8567
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.4 mi away/605 ft/87 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Raingage at Rapid Creek below Morse414345091253801
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.6 mi away/740 ft/48 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Muscatine 2 NMSTI4
At a cooperative observer's station/1.1 mi away/699 ft/7 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Muscatine 1.7 NIA-MC-23
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/715 ft/23 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.7 mi from Kent Estates, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
53.6 F with a dew point of 48.2 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Muscatine, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Muscatine 2 N (MSTI4), 1.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.