Rockwell CityRRWI4
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/1,286 ft/65 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lytton until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lytton is 45° and overcast at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northwest at 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 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 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:36 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 5:00 AM in Lytton, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Pisgah (IA), 68 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.69 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 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 8 miles Sat 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lytton, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lytton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rockwell CityRRWI4
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/1,286 ft/65 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Storm LakeSLB
At an airfield/22.8 mi away/1,476 ft/255 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW4516GW4516
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.4 mi away/1,111 ft/110 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lytton 4.0 NEIA-CH-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/1,237 ft/16 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sac CitySACI4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/1,191 ft/30 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.8 mi from Lytton, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,900 ft, overcast at 2,300 ft; the ceiling is 1,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 39.2 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 1,900 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 28 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Storm Lake, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Sac City (SACI4), 6.7 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 04:00. 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.