LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/1,270 ft/50 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Leland until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Leland is 43° and overcast at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 25 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 4:00 AM in Leland, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, South Central Minnesota (MN), 67 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 26, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
1.15 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Leland, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Leland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
LelandRLDI4
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/1,270 ft/50 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Forest CityFXY
At an airfield/7.2 mi away/1,229 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW5290EW5290
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/1,173 ft/47 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Forest City 2 NNEFSCI4
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/1,263 ft/43 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Forest City 0.7 NWIA-WN-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.0 mi away/1,259 ft/39 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.2 mi from Leland, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:10 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,300 ft, overcast at 1,800 ft; the ceiling is 1,300 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 1,300 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 22 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 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.