Citizen station GW2804GW2804
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/751 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lockridge until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lockridge is 46° and mostly cloudy at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 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 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Lockridge, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Lake Sugema (IA), 25 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 28, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.09 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lockridge, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lockridge, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
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Citizen station GW2804GW2804
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/751 ft/11 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Mount Pleasant 1 SSW [CCOOP]MPZI4
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.0 mi away/719 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/436 ft/304 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
FairfieldFFL
At an airfield/12.7 mi away/795 ft/55 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lockridge 0.1 NWIA-JF-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/732 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FairfieldFRFI4
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/774 ft/34 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.7 mi from Lockridge, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 3,200 ft, overcast at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 42.8 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,200 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 20 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Fairfield, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Fairfield (FRFI4), 10.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. 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.