Ida Grove (US 59)RIGI4
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/1,234 ft/117 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Kiron until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kiron is 44° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 Kiron, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 17, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.96 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kiron, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Kiron, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ida Grove (US 59)RIGI4
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/1,234 ft/117 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
DenisonDNS
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/1,250 ft/101 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Shagbark Hills ScanSHAI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.8 mi away/1,400 ft/49 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Shagbark HillsS2068
At a soil climate station/27.8 mi away/1,119 ft/232 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Schleswig 0.4 NEIA-CF-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/1,480 ft/129 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DenisonDNSI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.1 mi away/1,394 ft/43 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.9 mi from Kiron, Iowa. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 1,600 ft, scattered at 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,600 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Denison, 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.