In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,220 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Klemme until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Klemme is 43° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Klemme, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 70 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.88 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Klemme, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Klemme, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/1,220 ft/1 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mason City (I-35)RMCI4
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/1,234 ft/15 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/15.7 mi away/1,229 ft/10 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kanawha 4.1 ESEIA-HN-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/1,223 ft/4 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KanawhaKANI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.1 mi away/1,181 ft/38 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.7 mi from Klemme, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:50 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 1,100 ft; the ceiling is 1,100 ft; visibility 5 mi.
42.8 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 1,100 ft.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 14 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Forest City, 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.