Citizen station GW1775GW1775
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/1,010 ft/10 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Marble Rock until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Marble Rock is 45° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 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 Wednesday, near 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:15 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Marble Rock, Iowa.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Waterloo (IA), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.89 in in the last 24 hours, 0.92 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Sat 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Marble Rock, IowaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Marble Rock, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station GW1775GW1775
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/1,010 ft/10 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Charles CityCCY
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/1,116 ft/116 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mason City US18MSYI4
Beside a road/16.4 mi away/1,096 ft/96 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Charles CityCIYI4
At a cooperative observer's station/11.9 mi away/1,014 ft/14 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Nora Springs 2.4 SSEIA-FL-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/1,045 ft/45 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.9 mi from Marble Rock, Iowa. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 1,900 ft; the ceiling is 1,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 42.8 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 1,900 ft.
From the west northwest (290 degrees) at 10 mph, gusting 17 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
The full report of Charles City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Charles City (CIYI4), 11.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.